Lesser Scaup

[Dave Leroy]

Taken a few weeks ago at the local bird sanctuary. 50D, 500mm at f/8, 1/750, ISO 400, EC-1/2 and fill flash at
-1. Dave

[Doug Brown]

Very sharp. Nice use of fill flash. You could probably extract a bit more detail in the darks.

[Randy Stout]

Dave;

My first thought upon viewing the image was, effective use of fill flash. Before seeing Doug's comment, so good job there. The exposure really benefitted from the fill, on these notoriously challenging birds to expose.

Nice feather pattern on back.

Cheers

Randy

[Michael Zajac]

Beautiful pose w/ sharp details. Exposure looks good.

[Marina Scarr]

Very effective use of fill flash. I wouldn't have known had it not been for Randy mentioning it. Brought the picture into PS. It appears to need some CW rotation. Really like the pose and the colors you captured here.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Beautiful pose and I really love the head turn and eye contact. Everything else has been already mentioned. Many thanks for sharing.

[Stu Bowie]

Dave, I like the colours on the head, great HA, and this is certainly sharp.

[Dave Leroy]

Thanks everyone for the comments and Marina good catch on the rotation. Dave

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Excellent sharpness and eye contact. Love their eyes. Although I am not a big fan of this shooting angle, at times, one cannot get lower. And before I forget to mention.....superb job with exposure. These ducks are hard to expose correctly.