A Duck

[wxwax]

Just one lonely duck. I was trying my hand at shooting a bird for the first time. I used the 300 f4 lens, with the 1.4 extender. The light was not good this evening, due to an extremely heavy overcast. I pushed the ISO to 1250 to get a halfway decent shutter speed of 200 at f5.6, the largest aperature I could get with the extender on. Despite the lenses, this shot is significantly cropped. Anyway, here it is... a duck.

http://wxwax.smugmug.com/photos/9674550-L.jpg

[ian408]

I like. Better than mine.

http://ian408.smugmug.com/photos/9677556-M.jpg

[sorry for jackin' ya]

ian

[Head in the Clouds]

Wow. he/she is beautiful!
i assume it's photoshopped to get the all black background?
very nice. wish I could shoot like that. :cry
come to think of it .... i wish we had all white ducks in Australia! I don't think we do! mainly just skungy brown ones - example attached. :1drink

[wxwax]

Wow. he/she is beautiful!
i assume it's photoshopped to get the all black background?
very nice. wish I could shoot like that. :cry
come to think of it .... i wish we had all white ducks in Australia! I don't think we do! mainly just skungy brown ones - example attached. :1drink


Hmmm, that would be a duck's a*s! Nice tailfeathers. :evil Thanks, Kate, I was surprised as well. Yes, the black water is actually an accident. I was fiddling with Levels to make my duck less bright when I noticed it also brought down the water. Kinda cool, so I left it that way.

[wxwax]

I like. Better than mine.

http://ian408.smugmug.com/photos/9677556-S.jpg

[sorry for jackin' ya]

ian

:thumb Jack away, pelican breath!

[lynnma]

Just one lonely duck. I was trying my hand at shooting a bird for the first time. I used the 300 f4 lens, with the 1.4 extender. The light was not good this evening, due to an extremely heavy overcast. I pushed the ISO to 1250 to get a halfway decent shutter speed of 200 at f5.6, the largest aperature I could get with the extender on. Despite the lenses, this shot is significantly cropped. Anyway, here it is... a duck.

Sid I LOVE this duck!!! did you use a noise fixin program? it's beautiful, really beautiful. If I had one tinsy nit pick it would be a tinse more room in front of his beak and head.. just my ho. :clap :clap :clap ps... the more I look http://wxwax.smugmug.com/photos/9674550-S.jpgat it the more beautiful it gets... I'm going back to check the settings agin....:1drink