Hen Mallard In Flight!

[Cody Covey]

1/4000sec
F4.5
ISO 400
135mm
Rebel XT

Lay it on me guys what do you think?


_MG_6397.jpg by eildydar, on Flickr

[Julie Kenward]

Nice work, Cody! Really love the head view here and you couldn't have done a better job of getting the bird parallel to your sensor plane. You took a chance with f4.5 but it worked here!

Generally most would prefer the wings either fully up or fully down so the body is also somewhat in view but I think you ended up with a nice pose overall. I'd tone down the white on the back wing a bit and maybe see if you can bring out some detail in the back foot.

Very nicely done overall...you should be quite pleased!

[Cody Covey]

Nice work, Cody! Really love the head view here and you couldn't have done a better job of getting the bird parallel to your sensor plane. You took a chance with f4.5 but it worked here!

Generally most would prefer the wings either fully up or fully down so the body is also somewhat in view but I think you ended up with a nice pose overall. I'd tone down the white on the back wing a bit and maybe see if you can bring out some detail in the back foot.

Very nicely done overall...you should be quite pleased!

I am horrible at photoshop, I tried to lighten it up and couldn't get it to come out correctly. I was however able to get the back wing to look a bit better by bringing it down a bit.

[Peter Farrell]

Nice flight capture, Cody. Julie covered the critique quite well. I also like the head view with the downward wing position.
Peter