This is the same individual I posted a tighter portrait of recently. It was busy feeding by tipping up like dabblers typically do, then swimming a bit like it was doing here to another location to resume feeding again. Here it was close enough to the reeds to give some colour variation and lines to give the BG a "wetlands" feel.
Canon 7DII + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC III, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/640s., f/5.6, ISO 1600, natural light, small crop for comp (about 80% FF), eye work, a couple of brighter lines in the BG toned down burn and clone tools, NR to the BG and FG.
Really nice all the way around for me. Still don't know how you manage such excellent image quality at the higher ISO's with your 7dii! Love the wetlands feel and the vertical lines as well. This is a bird that I really want to try and get this year. I feel like something funny is going on, but to me the image looks like it needs a tiny bit of clockwise rotation.
Yeah, I have to admit I took a close look at that while processing the image, and it gave me fits! I believe the trailing edge of the "bow wake" creates the illusion along the front half of the pintail as the vertical lines in the reflection are perfectly perpendicular to a straight horizon. I tried "straightening" the image but those lines looked odd leaning slightly right.
I considered the wake as well and thought I am probably making it up. Then I took a piece or paper up to the screen and marked the water line to the bottom on right and left and it was a tiny bit higher on right. Surely it was not too scientific and I could have made a mistake...
Lovely shot Daniel. As for level, in PS I ran the ruler along the disturbed water line and arbitrary rotation was actually CCW 0.17 deg, as good as nothing.
This is lovely Daniel!
IQ, colors, POV, BG, techs all excellent. Perfect body position as well.
I have to say that when I first looked at the image I too, thought it needed a slight CW rotation. Worth fooling around with it,
Gail
A beautiful capture of my favorite, most elegant of waterfowl. The BG is to die for. Vertical lines look vertical, so that's good enough for me. A bit more DOF might have helped the duck, but probably would have hurt the gorgeous BG.
Hi Dan, this must rate as one of best images posted. Excellent IQ, and I really like the light in this. I like your traditional low perspective, overall, well exposed and sharp. Thats one killer BG too. Very well captured - a fine image all round.
Beautiful frame of this Bull Sprig, my favorite duck species. Nice details and colors but I too felt right away that it needed just a little CW rotation. Well done Daniel
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