Last Fall I managed some nice photos of male Lesser Scaups, but they were not in prime breeding plumage. Last weekend, however, I went back to the same spot and found a group of them in prime breeding colours. I lay down flat on the wet shore, put on the audio, and this drake immediately bee-lined it straight towards me until it was too close to focus. Quite a beautiful species of duck, well worth getting low, wet and dirty to photograph them at eye-level :-)
Canon 7D + 100-400L @400mm, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/800s., f/7.1, ISO 400 (settings histogram checked on nearby mallards). Slight crop for comp (about 80% FF).
I'm a real admirer of your work Daniel. Brilliant picture as usual and really like the low angle. Interesting technique using birds sounds to bring the species in closer. I assume this could work in the uk. Out of interest, how to you play the sounds? I'm thinking I could pop some bird sounds onto my iPhone 4 and play through that. Any advice?
Mind you , this was written before I discovered the joys of ipods, ipads, iphones, smartphones, android, etc... so it should be updated with that but the rest is quite relevant :-)