Northern Shoveler

[James Salywoda]

Northern Shoveler
Southern, California

I was working some of my images and was pleased with this one as I added canvas in front of the duck
to save this shot a whole 2inches that tells you how close this one was from being trashed.:D

Nikon D300s AFS 600 F4 1.4 TC
1/2500 F7.1 ISO 640

Thanks For Looking
Jim

[Doug Brown]

Love how nicely the wing colors are displayed. Nice exposure (you held the whites and got good color in the head), and of course the sharpness is excellent.

[Harshad Barve]

Yet another fine image James, lovely wing pose , HA , eye & wing details. You have mighty fine collection of duck images
TFS

[Stu Bowie]

Another superb inflight capture from you James. Well exposed colours, and nice and sharp. Well done.

[Ofer Levy]

I think you should be kicked out of this forum! This is too good for me....:eek:
Way to go my friend! You are the man!!!:cool:

[RAM MALLYA]

Lovely action captured of the bird nice BG

[Krijn Trimbos]

Good wingposition, great colors, good sharpness and BG. Great shot Jim!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the wing position, eye contact, angle and BG. Does it need a tad CW rotation?

[denise ippolito]

Jim, Beautiful sharp details and eye contact. I love these guys and never get close enough. The BG color really compliments the duck:)

[Mike Tracy]

I think this is a marvelous in flight. The position of the wings and their tips is as good as it gets. Spot on exposure and sharpness. The feet look a little over saturated to me.

[Mark Theriot]

Really great job balancing the darks and lights - very nice shot!

Mark

[Peter Farrell]

Superb Image. I echo all the previous positive comments. I like the foot as it is, wet looking with some water drops trailing down. I have never seen one of these, TFS,
Peter

[Marina Scarr]

James, this shot is on the money in every way. These birds aren't easy to expose, and you did it better than well. The additional canvas makes the comp really work. The colors look spot on from beak to tail. Love the movement in the wings.

[Callie de Wet]

This is truly a "wish it was mine" shot, right down to the curving primaries

[Jan Fourie]

great colours,BG ,comp ,posture and comp Great inflight image
jan:)

[Kurt Bowman]

Terrific! Not sure I have seen too many flight shots of N Shovelers. Love the light, detail and color

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Well done Jim, great details and pin sharp! :) Congrats.

[Randy Stout]

Jim:

Excellent as mentioned. I didn't think these guys could fly.:)

For my taste, I would tone down the feet marginally.

I wonder if the broad bill introduces aerodynamic problems for them? Would act like the elevator on an airplane.

Cheers

Randy

[Arthur Morris]

I cannot stop staring at the upperwing detail on the near wing. Superb.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

I do too love this image! Gorgeous bird and details.

[Dan Brown]

Fabulous Jim! Well worth salvaging with the added canvas. This image is so perfect that a flaw seems to surface for me and that is the upper tip of the bill:), seems not to be sharp. Love it none the less!:)

[Bruce Enns]

Stunning...absolutely gorgeous Jim. Beautiful in every way. Big congrats!

Bruce

[Karl Witt]

Wow, impressive handling of lights to darks with excellent color saturation. The top back and wing patterning and detail is wonderful for me. Just enough conveyance of motion and a pinpoint catchlight in the eye. I do see a strange spot directly front and above on the bill?
Great color depth throughout.

Karl

[John Ippolito]

Outstanding work, Jim! Agree with all of the above superlatives. Wow.

[Juan Aragonés]

I never get tired of watching your superb flight images Jim and this one is another fine example of your ability to capture the action of ducks. I think that you are goog because: 1) you get the action, 2) you are able to pick a good image from a long series of nearly equal quality (and that is not easy to do), 3) you select very good shooting points (light angle, wind direction, time, etc), 4) you process the images very good and, of course, 5) you have a very good technical level.

I love everything on this image and I only could ask for a bit more room at the left. The textures in the wing are outstanding!

Terrific work :)

[Christopher Schlaf]

Outstanding