King Eider, HY male

[Tim King]

50D - 300mm f4 L IS
HH - manual

[Daniel Cadieux]

Maybe a bit more room for the crop and toning down of the whites on the chest, but I really like the pose, low angle, and FG to BG transition. Very nice overall!

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Amazing low angle. Love the clean fg/bg and how the merge seamlessly. The bird is beautiful and the slight head tilt adds a lot to this image.
I'm not sure if this is a big crop or something with the processing, but I'm not seeing fine details on the bird on my monitor.

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent pose and light, the details look coarse and crunchy on my screen

[Robert Kimbrell]

Nice colors and pose, love the transition to the background, and clean foreground. I also see, the feather detail is somewhat lacking.

[Tim King]

Nice colors and pose, love the transition to the background, and clean foreground. I also see, the feather detail is somewhat lacking.

The Eider is singing in this photograph. During song they puff up their chest and let out a pure/dove-like sound which vibrates their entire body (notice the short ripples in the water), so getting a sharp shot during this behavior is pretty tough. Thanks all.