Hello! I promise this will be the last female duck, at least for a while. I have plenty more but you guys must be bored already! this was taken at the same place but it is a different duck! No band on the leg! The grayish BG is the lagoon, the orange part is a line of trees about 100 meters away. I don't know why the water doesn't look like water. Maybe the f/4 aperture. Any ideas?
Anyway, the wings! i am trying to find out what you guys consider to be a bad wing position! Thank you for comments! Cheers!
D300 - Af-S 300 f/4, AP wide open, 1/1600 sec, ISO 200, EV -0.3, Spot metering.
Last edited by Rene' Villela; 12-22-2008 at 06:08 AM.
Reason: I forgot the image!
I agree it looks a little soft...perhaps an additionasl round of USM would rectify this. The wing position is OK. With its' upward take-off I'd prefer more room above.
P.S. Photographing wide open and with what seems like a fair distance of the water behind your subject combined to make the water look like that. It actually looks good like this René...do you not like it??
Joe, Daniel.... I agree it looks soft. I was thinking it could be the spot metering right on the eye; then again, I don't know much! :) Even at 2500 I couldn't freeze it completely as you could see on my 2 previous shots. And Daniel, yeah! I like it I just couldn't understand why it became like that! :) I'm glad to have you guys to teach me those little things!
As you are probably now aware, this is a female Northern Pintail. ;)
This is the softest of the 3 posted in this series, with the 2nd the sharpest. IMO it is a focusing & not a SS issue. I don't know what what pattern you used, but as the bird was definitely to the RHS of the frame, this may have had a bearing on focus aquisition.
Although your SS should have been fast enough, I personally would have gone for a little bit more plus increased DOF with a higher ISO.