Ring necked drake

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

40D. 400f5.6L at f/6.3. iso 320. 1/800s. This one gave me a few keepers. Unfortunately, I got only a minute or so before he swam out of my range.

All comments welcome.

[Ofer Levy]

Superb in all counts IMHO. A tiny issue is darkening the slightly bright area on the chest which draws my attention.

[Jim Crosswell]

Beautiful image Kaustubh! I like the low angle, HA, sharpness and BG.

[Karl Egressy]

What an amazing low angle picture that is, Kaustubh. It feels like it is swimming out of the frame right where I'm sitting.
I like the HA, details and the soft light.

[gail bisson]

WOW Kaustubh,
Absolutely no nits from me. One of my favorites of yours so far. Great low angle and HA. Pastel BG is terrific as well.
Gail

[Randy Stout]

Kaustubh:

Your trademark low angle, soft background with almost a gradient feel to it, nicely exposed, nice comp.

I might try to tease a smidge more detail out of the blacks below the eye and on the upper chest.


Cheers

Randy

[Simon Wantling]

Beautiful low angle and as mentioned, great background. What was the subject distance out of interest ?

[Joe Senzatimore]

Low angle puts this one over the top. One sweet image. Big congrats on this one.

[dankearl]

Just a Great duck photo, The angle could not be better and smooth water on top of that.
Superb.

[Grace Scalzo]

Beautiful. Nobody does low angle ducks like you do!

[Steven Kersting]

Excellent exposure of a difficult subject.

[Sandesh R.Dhareshwar]

Excellent image with great sharpness overall i feel the tip of the beak (the black part) requires a bit of sharpness

[arash_hazeghi]

very nice you got everything right

[Stu Bowie]

You only need one winner from a series to make your trip worth while. Your usual low angle, pastel colours, sharp details, all add up to a fine image. Well captured.

[Doug Brown]

You definitely made the most of a brief encounter! Well done!

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Beautiful low angle and as mentioned, great background. What was the subject distance out of interest ?

Simon, I am very bad at guessing the subject distance. He was quite close...approx. 20 feet perhaps...or even closer. Its a small duck....but of course still much bigger than song birds :-)

here is the uncropped, unsharpened full frame shot. 40D and 400mm...so effective focal length of 640mm.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Thx everyone for all the comments.

[Manjeet & Yograj Jadeja]

Wow !! Beautiful perspective