This is a species of duck, we call the white faced duck. They have high pitched call, and very noticable from most other calls. Took this at one of the water spots in Pretoria. I experimented here by setting my ISO on auto, set my ss as high as I could ( it was still early morning, so not much light available) This is the result which I am quite happy with.
Canon 50D
100-400L IS USM @ 400mm
1/1600
F/5.6
ISO 800
Beautiful smooth background with unusual pose. I like how the composition leads to the bright, white head, also very sharp. Undecided about adding some room to the right?
Well done. Another caption could have been Peek-A-Boo. I think the vertical composition works well here. I like you were able to keep the head in focus with the wing motion. The background is very nice. Very nice as is. If I were to suggest anything I might try and tone down the higlights on the feet. Congratulations.
Well done. I can see why you would be happy with this one.
If you have PS Photo Filters you might try just a little "cooling" -
PhotoFilter (80) at 10-15% might bring your red channel back to left just a little bit.
Sure you can be happy with this excelente result Stuart. The composition is really good for a bird in flight and the Bg is fantastic. I love the timing and the great, superb, eye contact of the duck. Did you applied some gaussian blur to the background?
Very, very good job and creative composition :-)
Time, light and BG here are all superb. I think I would prefer to see this capture in horizontal with more added to the right and some off the bottom. I believe that would accentuate the head surrounded by the wings which is your focal point. Thanks for sharing.
I also feel a horizontal would work well with the bird in the back (left) third of frame. Great exposure and love the peeking eye. Congrats on a fine image. Love the wing blur too, even if only so subtle.
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