Hooded Merganser

[Daniel Cadieux]

I was happy to get this individual swimming towards me. The gradiant in its' eye, from inner black to outer orange, is quite spectacular in the right light - hope to get a close-up before it migrates its way outta here!

Canon 40D + 100-400L @400mm, Aperture priority, 1/1600s., f/6.3, ISO 400, -0.3 EC, natural light, handheld, slightly cropped for composition.

[Robert O'Toole]

Comp is nice and the head turn/eye contact is just amazing, the details are very cool. I also like the duckweed in the water.

I might run some mild NR on the top/BG and thats it.

Robert

[Taylor Yeager]

Nice colors and motion. I like the serration of the bill!

[bill kominsky]

Great capture Daniel as usual all parameters perfect, thank you for sharing.

Bill

P.S. If possible next time please include shooting mode.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Finally I can see it! (during all night yesterday the PC showed me a red cross in stead if the image) well Daniel, I love it! Love the head turn, the light and detaol, the water and waves and specially that great bill, comp looks great too! Congratulations!

[Daniel Cadieux]

Great capture Daniel as usual all parameters perfect, thank you for sharing.

Bill

P.S. If possible next time please include shooting mode.

Thanks Bill :), I had the shooting mode already written down in the techs: Aperture Priority. If you meant metering mode, then it was Evaluative metering that I used.

[Wayne Wood]

One of the better shots Ive seen of this little lady this fall Dan ,,, I was there today there wasn't anything on any of the ponds