Eider

[William Dickson]

Canon 7D
Canon F/2.8 300mm with 1x4 TC
f/11
1/800
ISO 640

I liked the way this male was posing and looking at his partner

Any advice greatly appreciated

[Bradley James]

Nice image of this pair. I agree the display by the male adds some nice interest to this image. One of the biggest advices I could give for waterfowl shots is get low..as low as possible to water level. This usually creates a much more pleasing image and draws the viewer into the subject. You will often get a better OOF BG which will help seperate the subjects from the BG. Keep it up

[William Dickson]

Thanks for that Bradley. The birds were in the harbour area and the tide was pretty low. I did find a place to sit but it was a restricted view . So I had to just sit and wait for any birds passing by me. I couldn't get any lower, but I reckon if the tide is high, I may well get a good position then

[keith mitchell]

William ,Bradley as made a good point but sometimes these birds are not always where we would like them, think I might loose a bit off the top, it's a very nice capture of these birds.

[Karl Egressy]

Nice capture of this couple, William. Love the pose of the male.

[arash_hazeghi]

the Eider has a nice pose, I wish the light angle was better and you had some detail in the blacks. ideally both of them would be parallel to the back of the camera

TFS

[Satish Ranadive]

Magnificent image of beautiful pair.

Regards,
Satish.

[Rob Melone]

A wonderful moment you captured here William and your chosen f stop makes it work!