A Muddy Canvasback

[Doug Brown]

As some of you may know, I recently made a move from Canon to Nikon. This is my first official image post using Nikon gear. This male Canvasback made a very close approach to me the other day, and I got frames before and after he got dirty; I think the muddy frames give him a little more character and tell a story about his behavior. FYI I had the ISO dialed up a bit because I was set up for flight shots.

Nikon D850, 600mm + 1.4x, f/5.6, 1/2500, ISO 1000, manual exposure, hand held

[Tim Foltz]

Doug, nice first shot with the new gear, the whites look just a wee bit hot but nice details and I really like the water.

-Tim

[arash_hazeghi]

nice the muddy head looks funny! we increased the posting size to 1920 pixels, it is much better for showing off those pixels ;)

[William Dickson]

I really like the eye showing through the mud. Lovely detail and colours on the water. Nice detail and colours on the bird. The reflection adds.

Will

[Randy Stout]

Doug:

Congrats on getting the right camera gear!

Pretty impressive mud pack on this one. Amazing it doesn't bother their eye when they do this.

With the D850, I do suspect the bigger size image would show off the tremendous detail that camera can render.

Cheers

Randy

[David Salem]

Nice image Doug. Love that red eye poping out of that muddy face. Details look great but posting at the new larger size will look even better. Well done

[annmpacheco]

Hahaha, fabulous Doug and congrats on your official Nikon post. Image looks terrific, ruby eye and muddy face mask. Love the drops on the back.

[Doug Brown]

Figures that an ophthalmologist would comment on the muddy eye!!!