White Face Duck Portrait

[Chris Kotze]

http://www.ckphotography.co.za/WFD2.jpg

Canon 40D 100-400 L
SS 1/800 Sec
f9.0 ISO 400

[Fabs Forns]

Very nice head portrait, sweet over your left shoulder light and perfect head angle. I would mask the sharpening from the top of the bill and maybe lighten the eye.

[Stu Bowie]

Chris, good use of F stop to get the whole head in your DOF, and his dirty face has helped with the exposure on those whites.

[Scott Frye]

Great to see the detail in the black beak and the white face -- and really sharp on the red feathers in the foreground

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

Lovely image with nice tech skills :)
I would use a different pixel image ratio. 3:2 would be more pleasant than this pano like one. This is just from a miss of showing more of the breast.

Szimi

[Morkel Erasmus]

nice one Chris! good to see you on here as well.
agree with Stu on the dirty face helping with whites. pin sharp for me. I would maybe go for less space on top and more of the chest - the plumage is very nice?

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Nice portrait, I like the details and eye contact and would remove the specular highlights at the tip of the bill. I agree with Gyorgy regarding the crop.

[Arthur Morris]

Sharp with stunning detail and a perfect EXP. Is this a free and wild bird? Is that a bread crumb at the base of his beak?

[Chris Kotze]

Thanks for all the views and comment. Yep Arthur is a free bird. I took this shot at a local Bird sanctuary and some of them are just more use to humans than other. I were lucky to get close to this guy. The mark on the beak is a bit of mud or something.

[Dave Barnes]

Nice capture Chris, Love the detail that you have captured.