American Wigeon in Late-Fall Colours

[Daniel Cadieux]

There was only a small patch of colour left at this point, so I set up and waited (and hoped) that one of them would swim through. One did, and offered a perfect head angle to boot!

Canon 7DII + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC III, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/400s., f/5.6, ISO 1600, natural light, handheld, small crop after a bit of CW rotation to level the horizon, eye work, a few flecks removed from the water.

[David Roach]

Are you in the water while waiting in the perfect place for these colors? Simply sublime (so what's new). One day, my friend, one day... But it won't be soon...

[Randy Stout]

Daniel:

Another beauty. Low shooting angle, soft water and background, excellent sharpening without getting crunchy, head turn.

Normally I would crop in tighter vertically, but I am sure you wanted to capture that list bit of color as fully as possible.

Cheers

Randy

[dankearl]

Nice water, it could use a bit of contrast for me....

[John Mack]

Spot on as per your usual. Nice low angle and the water color is great. Kinda matches the bird.

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

Beautiful colors and soft light

[Bill Dix]

Sweet color. Nice of him to find the right patch.

[gail bisson]

Love the colors and low POV.
The image needs a boost of contrast I think.
Gail