Northen Pintail - Male and Female

[Robert Amoruso]

Taken at sunset with golden light on the water, MINWR here in FL last weekend.

Canon 50D
Canon 600mm with 1.4x TC at 840mm
1/250 sec, f/5.6
Mode: Manual
Metering: Evaluative
ISO: 800

[Tony Whitehead]

This superb, Robert. Love the colour pallete, water and the pose of the drake especially. Pano crop works well. One of my favourite duck species even though I've never seen a real one! Most envious - if this were mine it would be printed big and hanging on the wall.

[Mike Tracy]

I was going to post my pintail from over there on Wednesday until I saw this.

It might just be me or this monitor but I wish the males head was just a smidge lighter. Other then that there is nothing not to like about it. I just love the light we get over there this time of year in the evenings.

[Juan Aragonés]

Very artistic image Robert and the poano crop works really fine here. superb light and colors and I like the pose of both birds. Well done!

[Peregrine Craig Nash]

I also think this is a very fine image. My only nit and a very small one is I wish the male Pintail's head was not looking down and was at the same level as the female. However I have never got close enough to one of these to get even a decent image so am really quite envious!!

[Doug Brown]

Love the water color and the fact that you got both of the birds in focus shooting wide open. The crop works well to me.

[Robert Amoruso]

I was going to post my pintail from over there on Wednesday until I saw this.

It might just be me or this monitor but I wish the males head was just a smidge lighter. Other then that there is nothing not to like about it. I just love the light we get over there this time of year in the evenings.

Mike, thanks for the comments. I did open up the head. Any more and it started to look unnatural. I did not like how the flash killed the soft glow of light on the ducks and preferred the w/o flash image better.

[Robert Amoruso]

I also think this is a very fine image. My only nit and a very small one is I wish the male Pintail's head was not looking down and was at the same level as the female. However I have never got close enough to one of these to get even a decent image so am really quite envious!!

I understand where your coming from and thought about that when I was deciding on it during editing and I do have one with the heads in the same up position. I felt that the different head positions added tension to the image. I appreciate you taking time to comment - very helpful to get others opinions. Now I will go back and work the same head position image and add to my files.