Female Mallard take off.

[Gary Esman]

7D, f/8, iso 500, 1/1000, 500mm, cropped.

Working on my action images. Shot this female mallard about 2 weeks ago at a local sanctuary. I am thinking the right wing is rather hot, but wanted to share it anyways.:)

Thanks for looking and any advice is appreciated.

Should have bumped the shutter speed up a bit.

Gary

[Geraldo Hofmann]

Very nice image I agree with the slightly overexposed wing. Maybe more space to the left would even improve the image.

Regards Geraldo

[Randy Stout]

Gary:

Great sense of explosion out of the water here. Love the head shadow on far wing.
I think the whites on the back wing probably aren't blown, but there isn't a lot of detail showing.

I did a selection on the wing, multiply blend mode at about 60% on the mask, and sharpened the head and near wing a bit. You of course can do a better job on the raw file, but I think the far wing now shows a bit more texture.

Cheers

Randy

[Doug Brown]

Whites are a little bright but don't appear to be blown. You really captured the essence of a mallard blast off Gary. The bird feels a little tight all around to me.

[Gary Esman]

Thanks guys, I will work on this image a little more!