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During our winter's, these guys are a plenty at a local pond in Pretoria. They are pretty fast flyers, so its fun to practice your BIF skills, and hopefully capture a good flight pose. During this time, I also practised shooting in manual, as recommended by Doug ( Brown ) Added a bit of canvas on the right.
Canon 50D
100-400 @ 400mm
1/2000
F/6.3
ISO 640
Manual Exposure
Hand held
awesome dynamic pose and details Stu
I love the wing position and the IQ in the feathers. I also like how you have shown off the russet on the back. A great BIF shot,
Gail
stew this is almost coming out on my macbook pro bro. superb image.
I think if i have rights i may crop the shadow on water out. may be a pano crop keeping bird in vert center?
and for colors i just loved the tonal values in this.
Super duper details, light and wing position, Stu.
Was a bit of canvas added on the right?
Lovely image of this beautiful specie.
Thanks Sid. Yes, I did add a bit of canvas. I processed this in July, so in all honesty, I dont remember doing it. I will now edit my introduction, and add it in. Thanks for pointing it out, as I can now see the bad job I did.:w3Quote:
Originally Posted by Sidharth Kodikal
Not a bad job at all, Stu. I just stared at and studied this fine image long enough to notice :)
Dead perfect wing postion; I love the downstroke. Exp very good. There is a seam where you added canvas...
Hi Stuart, love photographing these guys, but have nothing as good as this. Nice light and lovely feather detail on the wing. I also like the richness of the colours you have brought out in the image.
Outstanding! I really like the pose captured Stuart and the perfect detail.
Thanks a stack everyone for all your feedback and comments.
Dramatic duck! Great rendering.
Thanks a lot Mitch.
