Northern Shoveler, the female

[Fabs Forns]

Everglades National Park, Mzareck pond. late afternoon.

Date: 4/11/09

Model: NIKON D300
Lens (mm): 500/4 VR plus 1.7x
ISO: 800
Aperture: 6.7
Shutter: 1/500

Comments appreciated :)

[Scott Frye]

And that's why they call it "The Golden Hour". Gorgeous colors and I like the touch of blue under this shoveler.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Wonderful light, lovely comp, nice detail and colors, water looks fantastic and that bill is priceless! Congratulations.

[Steve Canuel]

Nice light, colors, and reflection. I also like the angle toward the viewer in which she's swimming.

[Stu Bowie]

Fabs, I like your comp, with the placement of the shoveler. Sweet afternoon light, bringing out lovely colours throughout the image, and a great eye too. Well captured.

[thijs broekkamp]

Yeah, i like this. Very nice light and compo!

[Paul Lagasi]

I like this..the bill just touching the water, colors all blend together and a nice reflection..what settings do you use?...Vivid, Stand, Normal or your own...

[stephen farmer]

Golden light,beautiful shot.


Steve.

[Danny Laredo]

Love the light and low angle.

[Mike Lentz]

The higher angle provided a nice reflection, very nice! The water is beautiful! I'd maybe take a bit off the top.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great light and details. I guess you were on a boardwalk and an even lower angle impossible.

[Charles Wesley]

Love all the colors, clarity and behavior in this fine image.

Thanks for sharing....
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Charlie Wesley
St. Augustine Beach, FL

[Fabs Forns]

I like this..the bill just touching the water, colors all blend together and a nice reflection..what settings do you use?...Vivid, Stand, Normal or your own...

Paul, in RAW, those settings don't mean anything, they are just only for jpgs.
What I do, though, that will affect my RAW is change the White Balance to cloudy, or to 9k for more punch.

Thanks!

[Fabs Forns]

Great light and details. I guess you were on a boardwalk and an even lower angle impossible.

I'm already seating in the ground No boardwalk here. Any lower I'd loose the reflection.

Thanks!

[Ilija Dukovski]

Great image, great color BG and bird, noise-wise excellent at ISO800
with the D300, I'm curious, did you apply much of noise reduction
or not?

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I'm already seating in the ground No boardwalk here. Any lower I'd loose the reflection.

Thanks!

That is a good point. I sometimes wonder what the best angle is to get a good reflection while not being higher than necessary. What is your experience with this?

[Fabs Forns]

That is a good point. I sometimes wonder what the best angle is to get a good reflection while not being higher than necessary. What is your experience with this?

I already wrote an article on that, for the July eZine :D

[Fabs Forns]

Great image, great color BG and bird, noise-wise excellent at ISO800
with the D300, I'm curious, did you apply much of noise reduction
or not?

I used one pass of Noise Ninja. Some images pick up more noise than others. I fin warm light does the best, noise wise.

Thanks for your comments.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Beautiful light Fabs.

And look at that beak!

Lovely mood and subject.