From a trip to San Diego at the start of the year. From Santee Lakes a great place for ducks both in the number and settings. Here I was trying something different, we were getting the ducks to dive by feeding sinking corn and I wanted a different crop on the image. This is basically a full frame image, so the framing was in camera.
Lots were cut, clipped and generally massacred but some turned out decent. This is one of them and was wondering what you thought?
Comments welcome and much appreciated
Nikon D300
200-400 f4.0 VR 1.4X
f 8.0 1/500 sec
ISO 640
Av 0
I like it all, except that dark oof foreground wing.......wish it were stretched back a bit so as to barely see the underside.
As is, I would likely crop more off left, about to where you AR initials are, but it's all a matter of taste on this one.
This is a female wood duck and she is flapping to dry her wings. We use a sinking type duck food so they need to dive .... so the feathers get wet and they need to flap !!! :cool:
Yes it does work! I think the head of the duck could perhaps stand a little more sharpening - but maybe if the feathers are wet it wouldn't change the appearance? Have to agree about the blurred dark left wing it does detract a little.
Jon
Hey, Alfred, dare I? It looks like I'm in the minority here. I like the colors, the background, the head and especially the eye, but not that oof dark wing in the foreground, and it does look like the duck is sailing backwards. Until you explained it, I couldn't see/get the concept. IAC, it raised my interest so maybe that means it does work?
Does it work?
