Horned Grebe.

[Karl Egressy]

The sky was overcast with white clouds. One of my favorite conditons for shooting.
It creates a silvery sheen on the water which I really like.
It also brings out the colours of the ducks and grebes.
Thanks for looking.

EOS-1D Mark IV
Manual Exposure
Tv 1/400
Av 6.3
ISO 640
EF500mm f/4L IS USM +1.4x

[Frank Schauf]

Beautiful portrait, great details and sharpness, Karl.

[Lorant Voros]

Nice high key effect, crisp sharpness. The water drops seem unreal with this presentation. Very interesting and nice image. Well done.

Lorant

[Bill Dix]

Wonderful. Colors on the grebe are superb against the high-key background. Sharp and well exposed.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Karl, liked the hgih key effect here. the white BG really helps with the color pop. Gorgeous eye. Nice details, shooting angle and comp. The water droplets on the back look a tad oversharpened to me.

[Karl Egressy]

Karl, liked the hgih key effect here. the white BG really helps with the color pop. Gorgeous eye. Nice details, shooting angle and comp. The water droplets on the back look a tad oversharpened to me.

Thanks, Kaustubh. Yes, you are right. I selected them and gave them an other round of sharpening.
I thought the picture would look better with sharper droplets, but it seems that I was wrong.
Will keep in mind.

[Jim Crosswell]

Great image Karl! I like the low angle, details and eye.