Fluffed up Woodie

[Joe Subolefsky]

Love this time of the year and will spend untold hours the next month or so shooting breeding wood ducks.
Canon 5DIII canon 600II+1.4, ISO1250,f5.6@320sec. Hope you enjoy

[keith mitchell]

Lovely ducks for you to work with Joe,this is a very nice clean simple image which I like a lot,water/Bg make a perfect setting for this fine looking duck.

Keith.

[Mike Poole]

Lovely detail Joe, just needs some clockwise rotation

Mike

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Joe , lovely wood duck in a pleasing setting .
Overall i think you drop the exp a tiny bit , the whites do look a bit hot to my eyes .

TFS Andreas

[William Dickson]

Lovely image Joe. Looks like a good subject to work with. I like the detail on the duck along with the nice BG.

Will

[adrian dancy]

A pleasing image but it needs a fair bit of CW rotation. The rock behind the bird is a bit unfortunate. Your balance with exposure is about right.

[John Robinson]

Nice bright image Joe, with my preferred blurred Bg too !!
Unusual effect tothe image all around. very nice.
John

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Joe, I like the relaxed pose, and the show of the various colours these guys have. Another vote for CW rotation, and I would maybe ease off on the sharpening of the finer beige plumage, its starting to look a touch on the crunchy side.

[Mike Quigley]

Hey Joe, just curious, do you use a hide. My woodies are incredibly skittish.

[Bill Dix]

A very nice pose from this fluffed up woodie. Good comments above: whites are at 255 in places, sharpness on the edge of crunchy. All easily fixed. I might also warm it up just a tad. Wish I had a ready supply of friendly Wood Ducks.

[Joe Subolefsky]

Thanks for the input guys.

The rock behind the bird is not unfortunate. It's one of several perches I put there to get the ducks up out of the water, this one happens to be a floating log.

I wish they were friendly Bill they are wild and skittish as can be.They ain't no park or zoo ducks. Without the silent shutter mode on the 5DIII or 7DII I would not get a 1/4 of the shots that I do and even then on calm days they still flinch and move off.

Right now I'm using the new Lenshide quite a bit but also use a ghillie and sometimes popup blinds depending on the setup.

Iphone pic of this mornings setup.

[Bill Dix]

Nice setup; puts my kwikcamo to shame. I didn't mean to suggest that you weren't working at it.

[Joe Subolefsky]

No worries Bill I did not take it that way at all.