Male Wood Duck Portrait.

[Daniel Cadieux]

From a couple of weeks ago when there were still a bit of leaves in the trees to reflect in the water, because as you can see the male Wood Duck needs all the help it can to make images colourful.

Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/200s., f/5.6, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, about 85% FF, the flanks darkened, and the white "chinstrap" also toned down to reveal more detail. Duck attracted closer with cracked corn.

[Ross Taylor]

Simply gorgeous Daniel :) I think you nailed this one and good.

What I like most about it is how we see detail in the iridescent crown, the incredible detail in the eye, and water that looks like white wine ;)

Thanks,
Ross

[Marina Scarr]

This is like the perfect woody portrait. Colors are just awesome b/c you had that muted light and a killer BG.

[arash_hazeghi]

sweet shot with great light and details well done Dan

[William Dickson]

Very sweet indeed. Fab colours throughout and a lovely pose.

Will

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Dan, you have nailed the exposure on this multi coloured fellow, not to mention the sharpness. I feel the colourful water is just so much an extra bonus.

[keith mitchell]

Dan it's all been well covered above but one amazing piece of work.

Keith.

[Mike Poole]

Can only echo the above comments, simple portrait made better with the perfect use of light and colours available

Mike

[Lorant Voros]

Classic and beautiful. Very nice work.

[Karl Egressy]

Lovely portrait, nice colors and details, Daniel. The golden water sets the subject off very nicely.

[Glenn Conlan]

Great colors and detail

[Satish Ranadive]

Gorgeous portrait, Daniel Sir.
Love the frame.

Regards,
Satish.

[Jim Crosswell]

Beautiful image Daniel! I like the IQ, colorful subject, BG and details.