Dynamic Pose Northern Pintail

[James Salywoda]

Northern Pintail Duck
Southern California

Things are heating up locally as duck season begins and the number of ducks wintering here grow by the day.

Nikon D300s AFS 600 F4
ISO 800 F5.6 1/2500

Thanks For Looking

Jim

[Gary Hamilton]

WOW! You are a master of BIF--I could look at this one all day. Love the details all around and the water drops on the head and those falling off the belly.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Superb, Jim. Nice light, sharpness and trailing droplets. Lovely fall colors in the BG take this up another notch.
Your ducks in flight are always a treat!

[gail bisson]

The BG looks like a Rembrandt painting. I love the wetness of the bill and the feather detail on the belly and the tucked up feet. Simply lovely,
Gail

[Karl Egressy]

Great details, sharpnes and colours against a painterly background, James.
I wish we had the selection of ducks that you do on the West Coast.
Love the dripping water too.

[dankearl]

One of the bast BIF photos, I have seen on this site.
Fantastic color, detail, all of it.
Just superb.

[Randy Stout]

Jim:

Excellent techs, sharp, neat pose. Very interesting background. It almost looks like it was zoomed during exposure to give the ray like effect above the bird. I obviously know you didn't zoom that lens, but that is what it struck me as.

Very well done.

Cheers

Randy

[Ofer Levy]

SHarp with nice detail! Like the BG too. Would run some noise reduction on the BG - looks like the D300s doesn't handle iso 800 that well.

[James Salywoda]

Repost with noise reduction in bg..... Thanks for the comments everyone

[Arthur Morris]

I am generally not a fan of similar wing positions--I was pretty sure that I was not gonna like this from the thumbnail. But I was way wrong. With the primaries perfectly parallel to the back of the camera this one rocks! And the head so sharp as well.

[Dumay de Boulle]

Love the pose and comp BG's...Noise is visible in the OP in the BG but repost sorted out those issues. Very nice looking image!

[Ofer Levy]

Repost is a killer!!!

[Stu Bowie]

Great inflight pose, tack sharp, and just love those BG colours. Repost rocks.

[arash_hazeghi]

I love the dynamic pose and sweet light Jim, well done and repost takes care of the noise.