In a previous post I showed an image of a female Mandarin Duck portrait. This is the image of the drake captured at the same time and place. The two were together as a mating pair. There are a few things I wish were different with the image but you have to play the ball where it lies. I was on a set of concrete stairs that lead to the water. Sitting on the lower step leaning out over the water aiming the camera back to where the ducks were perched on a concrete ledge, trying to frame the image while eliminating the concrete from the frame. Pretty much succeeded, cropping just a little concrete out of each frame. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.
Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 400mm (600mm FFE)
1/2000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering +2/3 EV ISO 3200 AWB
Post processed in Lightroom 6 and Photoshop Elements 10
Cropped for composition and presentation
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
Beautiful colours and details, and you got a perfect head angle from this fella. Nice BG too, with a bit of lines and textures to add interest. I do wish you had more room at left, but perhaps that is where some of the concrete distractions were?
Last edited by Daniel Cadieux; 10-07-2015 at 05:17 PM.
Gorgeous sharpness and tonalities! The pose looks like it had the planning of a studio shot with a professional model! Well done in difficult circumstances.
Mandaring Duck (drake)
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