Long-tailed Duck

[Karl Egressy]

The red reflection spot is from the nearby bridge.
Rare to find such a calm water in the Ship Canal where this image was taken from the pier.
Thanks for looking.

Canon 1D MIV
Canon 500 f4.0 L IS + 1.4III
Manual Exposure
ISO 800
f7.1
1/2000 s
Hand held (for flight shots)

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Very nice IQ, light and water texture. Lovely duck image. Nice work Karl.

[Richard Stern]

Hi,

Beautiful. The water has a rather surrealistic effect with its smoothness. Good exposure on the contrasty duck.

Richard

[Nick Palmieri]

Great IQ, exposure is dead on. Very nice job.

[PhilCook]

Exposure and sharpness is ideal and water has a lovely texture to it especially the honey smooth wake it's leaving behind...I admit to not being keen on the top reflection though, crop it out maybe ?

[Fernando Cerra]

What a stunning beautiful bird !

[stuart wanuck]

well done and cute

[christopher galeski]

very nice image,like the light,nice silky water,and s beautiful duck.thanks.