Daniel Cadieux
10-05-2011, 07:58 PM
This most cooperative pair of young Hooded Mergansers were lots of fun to photograph...so here is another image of them, this time in a pretty autumnal setting. They were both sleeping when this one suddenly decided to stretch it's wings. I was certain it was going to jump into the water (which is just beyond the frame at the bottom of the image) but it just tucked its head right back into its feathers and proceeded to snooze some more :-) This was before my slow crawl for portraits posted previously.
Canon 7D + 100-400L @400mm, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/640s., f/7.1, ISO 800 (settings histogram checked), natural light, handheld, full-frame. A couple of leaves were near blown so were toned down via burn tool, and a few more strategically removed (clone and patch tools), three blades of grass across the bill also removed via patch tool. Whites opened up via dodge tool and selective color.
Canon 7D + 100-400L @400mm, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/640s., f/7.1, ISO 800 (settings histogram checked), natural light, handheld, full-frame. A couple of leaves were near blown so were toned down via burn tool, and a few more strategically removed (clone and patch tools), three blades of grass across the bill also removed via patch tool. Whites opened up via dodge tool and selective color.