Egyptian Goose

[Stu Bowie]

I went to the local pond in Pretoria on saturday morning, and came away with this Egyptian goose in flight. The BG is distant OOF trees.

Canon 50D
100-400 @ 370mm
1/2500
F/6.3
ISO 640

Manual exposure
Hand held

[Arno Ellmer]

This is excellent ,Stuart.I love the general posture of the bird ,with the head separated from the wing,the awesome underwing detail and the water droplets on the body. WD

[Doug Brown]

Sweet light, gorgeous BG, and a great calling pose with good eye contact. I might back off slightly on the sharpening, and I'd try to bring up the darks a bit.

[arash_hazeghi]

awesome Stu, love the light BG and sharpness, you nailed it!

[dankearl]

Wow, just a beautiful BG and focus.
I would also lighten a tad.

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Stu great flight angle, sharp and love the open beak. Love the BG in this image. I would agree with lightening black slightly.

[Brendan Dozier]

Wonderful light, flight pose and angle, Stuart! Nice work!

[christopher galeski]

nice image Stuart,good BG,nice flight pose,and I like the water droplets,well done thanks.

[Satish Ranadive]

Marvelous image.I liked the under-wing detail, the water droplets on the body and nice BG which has created beautiful color scheme.

[Dave Leroy]

It looks like lovely light and an excellent choice for a bg.

I really like the nice pose and particularly the head with nice eye and open bill.

Well done on a very photogenic bird.

Dave

[Karl Egressy]

Nice pose and angle. I like the open beak and wing position.

[Stu Bowie]

Thank you all so much for the feedback. Always appreciated.

[Randy Stout]

Stuart:

Good comments above. Like the 3D effect, nice background, colors.

Cheers

Randy

[Wynand van Wyk]

Beautiful detail and a stunning background! Love the droplets on the feathers.

Superbly done!:S3:

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Fantastic Stuart. Awesome in every department. I'm thoroughly enjoying it!

[gail bisson]

I love the colors and the open beak. Agree with all of the above comments. I think my favotite is the water droplets on the body,
gail

[Nico Steenberg]

Great in flight shot with good exposure and bg. Like the comp warm colours :S3: