Another White-faced Duck

[Stu Bowie]

During our winter's, these guys are a plenty at a local pond in Pretoria. They are pretty fast flyers, so its fun to practice your BIF skills, and hopefully capture a good flight pose. During this time, I also practised shooting in manual, as recommended by Doug ( Brown ) Added a bit of canvas on the right.

Canon 50D
100-400 @ 400mm
1/2000
F/6.3
ISO 640

Manual Exposure
Hand held

[arash_hazeghi]

awesome dynamic pose and details Stu

[gail bisson]

I love the wing position and the IQ in the feathers. I also like how you have shown off the russet on the back. A great BIF shot,
Gail

[Mital Patel]

stew this is almost coming out on my macbook pro bro. superb image.
I think if i have rights i may crop the shadow on water out. may be a pano crop keeping bird in vert center?
and for colors i just loved the tonal values in this.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Super duper details, light and wing position, Stu.
Was a bit of canvas added on the right?
Lovely image of this beautiful specie.

[Stu Bowie]

Was a bit of canvas added on the right?

Thanks Sid. Yes, I did add a bit of canvas. I processed this in July, so in all honesty, I dont remember doing it. I will now edit my introduction, and add it in. Thanks for pointing it out, as I can now see the bad job I did.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Not a bad job at all, Stu. I just stared at and studied this fine image long enough to notice :)

[Arthur Morris]

Dead perfect wing postion; I love the downstroke. Exp very good. There is a seam where you added canvas...

[Pieter de Waal]

Hi Stuart, love photographing these guys, but have nothing as good as this. Nice light and lovely feather detail on the wing. I also like the richness of the colours you have brought out in the image.

[James Salywoda]

Outstanding! I really like the pose captured Stuart and the perfect detail.

[Stu Bowie]

Thanks a stack everyone for all your feedback and comments.

[Mitch Carucci]

Dramatic duck! Great rendering.

[Stu Bowie]

Thanks a lot Mitch.