Fulvous Duck

[Stu Bowie]

This is full frame. I managed to capture him before he came within my minimum focussing distance. I like the landing posture, with the curved wings. I would have liked more DOF, but as he came so close, I lost out here. Added a bit of canvas on the left. Taken in Pretoria a few weekends ago.

Canon 50D
100-400 @ 400mm
1/3200
F/5.6
ISO 640

Exp Comp 0
Hand Held

[Harshad Barve]

lovely wing postion , nice Ha , sharp, beautiful BG , works for me all the way
TFS

[Fabs Forns]

Very sweet light, Stuart, he's just coming out of the water, you can see the drops. Very good timing on your part, difficult to go lighter because of the red channel getting blown because of the warm light. I like the peek-a-boo toes :)

[Ilija Dukovski]

That's perfect landing pose the wings make excellent composition,
light very nice and eye contact make the image, I like it!

[Brian Barcelos]

Lovely exposure and excellent eye contact. The warm light really adds impact to the ducks already warm colors. Wing position is awesome and I agree with your critique about DOF. Congrats.

Brian

[Dave Leroy]

Focus is spot on and excellent timing. It looks like soft light but hard for me to tell from camera settings. Very well done. Dave

[Indranil Sircar]

Beautiful light and incoming angle. Excellent exposure, colors and details.

[David Fletcher]

Nailed this one Stuart!. Lovely light on this with good details. The toes, as Fabs mentioned, are a nice touch.

[John Ippolito]

Very nice as mentioned above. Love the light and the pose at take off. Well done.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the light, topside view, sharpness and exposure control. If it were mine I might give it a tad more room but it works as presented.

[Chris Kotze]

Super landing pose and great detail. Well captured

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Excellent work bro. Love the added canvas, it's freakin' seamless! Very nice pose, you already noted lack of DOF. Not an issue for me. It's sharp where it has to be sharp! :)

[Dave Barnes]

Very well captured Stu. Pose and comp works well and exposure spot on. Nice one.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Beautiful one Sir... loved the setting and the Pose.. congrats..

[Morkel Erasmus]

you nailed it. one of your best yet - lovely exposure, pose and sharpness china!

[Stu Bowie]

Thank you all so much for the kind words.