Goldeneye in golden water
Photographed in spring on a duck pond in Friesland. I have dreamt of photographing these birds in the wild, but for now this captive bird will have to do. The water colour is created by late afternoon sun on a golden willow which reflected in the water.
C & C are welcome,
Canon EOS 30D 1/800 f8 Manual
ISO 200
Canon 300mm f2.8 + 2x Converter
Raw
Cropped for web presentation
Last edited by Krijn Trimbos; 08-20-2008 at 03:09 PM.
Great angle, light and details. I might try to get more details in the back of the head. This is a captive bird? How do they keep them from leaving?
beautiful shot. I like the colors of the water and the bright colors of the bird. perfect head turn. I agree with Axel on trying to get more details on the back of the head.
Markus
Krijn
These guys are difficult to get close to where I live so I appreciate any nice image. Beautiful water that is great to compliment the bird. Excellent exposure. You could work with it to get a little more detail on the back of the head but I think it looks so natural the way it is that I'd probably leave it as is. Well done.
wonderful light you had here buddy....personally I always find parallel shots slighly boring as it is difficult to create something more than a registration. I wonder why you cropped this for the web....it looks a bit too tight for my personal taste and would be interested to see the uncropped version. I'd love to get photographs of this bird....they show some very interesting behaviour...so next time count me in... (you owe me after that owl photograph ;-) )
Thanks for the comments everyone!Originally Posted by Jasper Doest
Hi Jasper,
The reason I went for parallel is the irridecence on the top of the head. When the sun angle isn't completely right you get burnt blacks on top of the head (as you can already notice in my shot) very fast with this species. In my view a parallel shot, and thus parallel to the sun as I always choose my position with the sun directly from my back, as far as possible would remedy this.
Generally I don't find this too tight for my taste otherwise I wouldn't have done it. ;)
I cropped a bit of the right, top and bottom for this presentation, the reason was that there was just too much empty space around the duck which I didn't feel added to the shot. Also I too my eye the duck was a bit too close to the left side of the frame, which bugged me. I could have added a bit more room all around, but instead I went for this approach, by cropping it a bit more all around. This is the uncropped version for reference, that I had to rework from scratch (so the colours might look a bit off) as I had originally cropped it in CR already before converting it to TIFF with my former post.
Cheers,
Krijn
Last edited by Krijn Trimbos; 08-21-2008 at 08:31 AM.
Thanks for explaining Krijn.....Personally I think you made the right choice....but perhaps you cropped off a bit too much at the bottom. But as said....personal nits...but ain't they always personal?
Yup most of them are! But sometimes even personal nits can improve your photographing/post processing skills if you take them seriously. On the other hand not all nits should be taken seriously, at some point it is a matter of real personal choice that line is however very thin......:D
Next time I'm going to the 'super' duck pond I'll let you know!
See ya
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