Cape Teal in the shadows

[Craig Kerr]

Location: Austin Roberts - South Africa

Camera - Canon 7D
Lens - Canon 500mm F4.0
Shutter Speed - 1/320
Exposure - F4.0
Exposure Comp. - -0.3
Date - 07/03/2011

[Nico Steenberg]

Hi Graig, nice to see you posting this side :w3

Subject is sharp and well exposed with good detail Like the reflection. Looks if it were taken in the shade near the hide. Conditions well handled. Keep them coming :S3:

[Karl Egressy]

Nice first post, welcome to BPN. Love the reflection.

[Art Kornienko]

Interesting head on from the front shot, I would have preferred a crop just below the head in the reflection elminating what looks like a green leaf.

[Craig Kerr]

Thanks for your comments Nico, Karl and Art.... Looking forward improving my Avian photo's on this site, good and harsh crits all add up to, hopefully, better photo's.
I was in two minds to use a differnet crop, ditto the green leaf in the lower part of the image.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Hey Craig, neat duck...I love the red eye! Good incoming pose and I like the raised bill. I also dig the rippling water above. I too would like to see the leaf cropped out, and I would look into eliminating the bluish cast on the subject. Very sharp as posted.