Blue-winged Teal pair

[Bill Dix]

More digging through old files on a rainy day. This one from Cape May Point State Park in 2013.

D7000, 500f4 + 1.4 TC, ISO 800, 1/1600s @ f/7.1 manual.

[Randy Stout]

Bill:

Colors work well together, excellent head angle on rear duck, front is OK. The DOF helps soften some of the clutter in the water, but still a bit distracting. Good shooting angle.

Fun to go back and look at older files, often some forgotten gems.

Cheers

Randy

[Brian Sump]

Bill, super light on the subject and both in plane is great!

I love the touch of autumn colors in the band above but find the surroundings a bit busy as well.

Removing the bright grass sticking up in mid-front may help a bit.

Processing on the subjects looks fantastic!

[Daniel Cadieux]

These guys knew you were around! We can really feel them looking seriously towards your direction. The water surface is a little lumpier than I prefer, but overall the low-ish angle helped a bit there (as Randy mentioned already). For sure I'd eliminate the vertical white line in the FG below the front duck. Excellent sharpness on both individuals.

[Bill Dix]

Thanks Randy, Brian and Daniel. Yes, the water in that pond was somewhat cluttered. I'll go back and remove that one stem.