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Beautiful image -- iridescence shows nicely, and exposure is spot on. Good field technique.
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Good job on getting this one. Nice sheen on the head. The angle and water are very nice.
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Looks great Isaac. I have a bunch of Lessers but no Greaters in my collection. Did you lift the blacks/darks on the face at all? If yes, I might dial it back just a touch. It looks a bit washed out compared to have they appear in real life.
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Hey Dorain when the sun hit this bird his head lit up nicely. I lifted the shadows a small amount but then lowered the blacks just about as much in LR. This is pretty much straight out of the camera how it looked. in PS I deepened the blacks a bit more as well. Seems within range of what I am used to seeing on these guys if you view them close and in nice light. Now Lesser is a whole other thing. We get far fewer of them by me and still do not have a nice pic. Am hoping to get to Maryland soon to get them.
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Really Nice Isaac! Great detail and perfect HA and eye contact. Absolutely gorgeous. TFS
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Up here we get the Lessers a lot more than the Greaters. Super nice low angle and I love the sheen on the head feathers. Not sure about the Greaters, but the Lessers respond nicely to call, coming close enough for full-frame tight portraits (and offering very cool head-on swimming poses as they approach)...but they are only fooled once...then it's game over until the next morning .
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What a difference a few hundred miles make Daniel. I can literally drive 10 minutes and see thousands of Greater Scaup all winter out in the bay and never be within a 1/4 mile of them. There are hardly any lessers here at all. About 25 spend the winter in one flock on the Brooklyn side of New York Harbor but there is no way to get down to eye level as most of the land is private and where you can access you are always well above them on a pier or a sea wall. Another reason to come visit!
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Excellent image. I love the colors a lot.
I never got a chance to photograph both lesser and greater scaups at all.
We do see them sometimes in Utah but they are never close enough for photography
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Now this is NICE!!
Absolutely no nits from me.
Love the comp, the IQ, the perfect head turn, the light. You have shown the iridescence on the head perfectly.
You nailed this one Isaac!
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