Female Northern Pintail in Flight

[James Salywoda]

Female Northern Pintail
Southern California

I was happy to get both the male and female Pintail in flight with nice solid colorful backgrounds over the
weekend.


Nikon D300s AFS 600 F4
1/2000 F6.3 ISO 800

Thanks For Looking

Jim

[Brendan Dozier]

Pretty dang awesome capture and composition, James! Excellent IQ and real nice BG colors. Well done.

[Dumay de Boulle]

Anther perfect wing position with a great BG and exp....Noticed quite a bit of nose in the last few posts. This one is a bit better, but maybe more NR on your BG's

[arash_hazeghi]

great Jim, love the dynamic pose, details and light, agree BG needs some NR.

[James Salywoda]

repost with noise reduction in bg.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Top notch, super pose and excellent detail. It is becasue the image is so good that my next comment sounds trivial but if you look carefully it is possible to see there the noise reduction has not been applied, or conversely where the sharpening has been applied. Look around the bill and the tail.

[Wynand van Wyk]

Superb background captured here! Great detail on the subject. Well captured!

[Neil Nourse]

James,

Another beautiful flight shot. Sure do like that background....

Thanks for sharing, looking forward to more.

Neil

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Awesome, Jim. Fantastic sharpness, details and pose. Love the bg.
Wish I could visit Bolsa Chica often :)

[Dave Leroy]

Lovely shot Jim. I really like the pose. BG in repost is noticeably smoother.

[Bill Dix]

Beautiful flight shot. Superb BG and wing position. Repost improves it. Glad the waterfowl have returned to your neighborhood - looking forward to more.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Nice to see your images James, The repost works well.

[arash_hazeghi]

repost rocks Jim

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

James, you are the master of these. colors, sharpness, angle...superb on all counts. Its not easy to nail them like this when they are flying fast across the frame.