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Female Mallard

Gallery: Regional: UKNPPosted February 22, 2011114 views9 comments

Another taken a couple of weeks ago at the LWT. Although the male Mallards are more colourful, in nice light, the females can look stunning, especially against a nice blue sky

Nikon D300s
Nikon 200-400mm at 400
Handheld
F4
1/2500s
ISO 640

Slight lifting of the shadows under the wing, tiny crop, USM

Oscar

Comments

9 comments

Comment posted by Tom_W on February 23, 2011 at 3:21 AM

Hi Oscar,

Light looks good and position in the frame is good. A nice capture.

Registered on December 10, 2003, 38 Posts, 87 Comments

Comment posted by David Sewell on February 23, 2011 at 4:36 AM

A blue sky?

Not sure I remember seeing one of those

A very nice shot, Oscar.

David

Registered on September 10, 2008, 63 Posts, 801 Comments

Comment posted by Justin on February 23, 2011 at 5:12 AM

The females certainly do look good, especially with the warm light highlighting the brown plumage colours.
A well captured shot.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 106 Posts, 1697 Comments

Comment posted by rosemary green on February 23, 2011 at 9:28 AM

Lovely image, Oscar. Processing looks good to me, too. (How many weeks ago did we have that sunshine at LWC??!!)

Registered on December 11, 2010, 0 Posts, 50 Comments

Comment posted by Simon Litten on February 23, 2011 at 10:53 AM

Great capture

Well done.

Simon

Registered on June 22, 2006, 24 Posts, 275 Comments

Comment posted by Karen Summers on February 23, 2011 at 5:14 PM

lovely image and the light looked good and that blue sky, we really could do with some of that

Registered on December 3, 2009, 83 Posts, 818 Comments

Comment posted by Craig Jones on February 23, 2011 at 7:16 PM

Beautiful light and well captured Oscar. Blue sky looks lovely and great detail. 'Birds in flight' when there's good light like here- the best setting is F8 the depth of field is bigger,bringing the whole bird into focus, your shutter speed then would have halfed- 1/1200 still good for sharpness, but better depth of field at F8. Hope that helps Oscar hope I dont sound like a smart arse

just giving you a bit of advice

F8,ISO 400,(in good light-poor light ISO 1000 and F5.6) +0.3EV Matrix pan,follow bird and pick up as early as you can with the camera is what I use/do

Registered on January 31, 2009, 67 Posts, 316 Comments

Comment posted by Geoffrey Baker on February 24, 2011 at 1:14 PM

Well captured Oscar