Bufflehead drake 2

[Kurt Bowman]

Here is another Bufflehead (we saw several) from my trip to Colorado. I liked that the iridescent colors on the head were better visible in this frame.

A1
200-600mm
1.4 TC
shot at 840mm
1/4000 at f/9
ISO 3200

[Joseph Przybyla]

Hi Kurt, love the image, you nailed it. No nits from me. Thank you for sharing.

[Chris van Rooyen]

Nice frame Kurt, colours, composition, background, body position all top class. Looks like it could do with a tad more sharpening (at least on my screen)(?)

[Steve Kaluski]

Looks awfully smoothed out Kurt, with no real detail to each onto????

[Paul Burdett]

I like everything here, but agree that it does look somewhat soft to my eyes (70 this year, so what do I know)

[William Dickson]

Its a cracking flight shot Kurt...Love the colours in the BG....I would agree with Steve....the bird does look a wee bit flat....Worth re processing ....

Will

[Brian Sump]

Hey Kurt, great canvas. Love it coming in low and fast...

Perhaps there was a step in the transition that didn't take or something. I'm sure you'll revisit and nail it down.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Kurt ... a killer flight shot , love it .
Would reprocess the whole thing , needs more tonal depth in the 3/4 tones and not the blacks , IMHO.
And needs to go sharper as it is too soft overall

Well worth to rework

TFS Andreas

[Dorian Anderson]

Agree with the comments about sharpness and flatness. Love the pose and setting, so it's definitely worth having another crack at this to see what else you can extract.