I realize I posted a Northern Pintail portrait just a few days ago, but I reviewed this frame after-the-fact and immediately fell for the awesome bow wake. It's always a pleasure to photograph waterfowl struggling against strong currents as many sizes and variations of bow wakes are made. Lots of fun to pick and choose the best frames afterwards too! The diffused light was off to my right, the head angled any less towards me wold have put the face in the shade...
Canon 7DII + 500mm f/4 II, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/500s., f/8, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, about 80% FF.
Magnificent portrait, Daniel Sir.
love the elegantly captured bow wake showing his colors through. Water colors are nicely complimenting with beak color.
Superb colors and details as usual. Beautiful composition.
These ducks are so beautiful, we have plenty of them in SoCal, but for all of my trying I've yet to get anything even close to this good.
I really like the light hitting from the right, and the nice head angle to catch the light so well. Wonderful color and amazing detail, and your composition is well seen.
Of course it's cool to see the bow wake and droplets on it's back. Excellent work Daniel. :-)
The Bow Wake.
. It's always a pleasure to photograph waterfowl struggling against strong currents as many sizes and variations of bow wakes are made. Lots of fun to pick and choose the best frames afterwards too! The diffused light was off to my right, the head angled any less towards me wold have put the face in the shade...
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