Wood Duck Featherscape

[Daniel Cadieux]

I've always loved to take "featherscapes" when the opportunity presented itself, so when this very tame female Wood Duck decided to rest in front of me, with her wing colours exposed, I went straight to work on that. Hope you like it!

Canon 7D + 100-400L @400mm, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/250s., f/8, ISO 800, fill-flash @ -0.3 FEC, full-frame, some white snowflake specks removed from the plumage, but opted to leave the full snowflake there.

[William Dickson]

Very nice Daniel. Love the colours.. I like this kind of image, it would look great on canvas. Glad you left the snowflake. This is a very nice work of art. The centre feather showing the colours blending, immediately catches the eye. Then, you take in the whole image. Wonderful. Thanks for sharing

[Jack Breakfast]

O, I do like that snowflake!

[Grace Scalzo]

Fabulous! And that snowflake is such a perfect little jewel for her.

[Karl Egressy]

Beautiful feather study, Daniel.

[gail bisson]

Well seen Daniel.
Great colors and texture with superb fine details.
Love the snowflake!I also like the white feather showing through the top brown feather.
Gail

[Andre Pretorius]

Love it, Detail amazing!

[Diane Miller]

Just wonderful!!

[Lorant Voros]

I like this approach to bird photography, Dan. These feathers are beautiful and the chosen composition is perfect.