Common Pochard

[Mital Patel]

Common Pochard (Aythya ferina)
Jamnagar, Gujarat, INDIA

1D Mk IV, 800 f/5.6
1/1250, f/13, ISO 1600

Cropped 50%+ Handheld
Taken in foggy morning. increased aperture to reduce the haze and increase clarity.

All Crits Welcome.

[Tom Rambaut]

Very sharp Mital - 800 looks like a great lens. Nice looking duck, looks like our Hardhead. I may just clone the highlight spot between the eye and bill.

[Jack Breakfast]

What's more remarkable than your fine capture of a beautiful bird is that you held this lens in your hands!

[ramesh anantharaman]

Love the low angle and the way the bird is placed in the frame.

[Ofer Levy]

Excellent work Mital! Sharp with lovely light and colours.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Beautiful clean image with great details. I appreciate it may be the angle from which it was taken but he looks like he is swimming downhill to me. There is a small feather on one of the dark reflections, it doesn't bother me but once you spot it I think you do tend to look at it again.

[Karl Egressy]

You got rid of the forg pretty good. Nice angle, details and colours, Mital.

[Arthur Morris]

Love the eye and the beautiful, even light on the head.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Mital, very similar to Canvasback that we have here.

loved this one. light, sharpness, low angle, ripples....well done on all fronts.

[Jim Crosswell]

Great image Mital! I like the low angle. sharpness, red eye and calm water.

[arash_hazeghi]

nice light and details mital