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    Rene' Villela
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    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.
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    I would have thought that at 1/1600th the wings would be sharper. Image seems a bit soft overall.

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    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??

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    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!

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    I like the sense of motion but agree that the bird is too far in the corner and it needs more space at the top.

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    Killer pose,light and great composition!

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    Hi Rene

    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.


    Cheers: Wayne

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