Wood Duck (Full Body) in Autumn Colours.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Thanks for the comments on my previous Wood Duck image! Here's a full body version of when it was further away. Traditionally skittish around here, they have been fed and have become gradually tamer over the last couple of years at a local spot. Here this individual is coming in for some cracked corn.

Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/320s., f/5.6, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, cropped for composition, the yellow BG toned down (it was quite too bright when exposed for the duck), a few specks in the water cleaned up.

[Randy Stout]

Daniel:

Great display of colors on the head, well exposed, bow wake makes it look like he was in a hurry for the snacks.

Cheers

Randy

[Grace Scalzo]

Love the little bow wake. Good job with the exposure....I find that these are amoung the trickiest ducks to get just right. Water color is beautiful.

[Joe Subolefsky]

My favorite duck. Nice exposure but I might have tried something to clean up the double image on the outline of the tail.

[Jim Crosswell]

Excellent image Daniel! I like the exposure, water colour, IQ, full range of head colours and composition.

[mohammad reza shahab]

Excellent colours and IQ. well exposed.

[Fernando Diez]

beautiful colors in the duck and water, incredible species! Good angle and composition!
greetings

[William Dickson]

Excellent colours and image Daniel Well done and thanks for sharing this