Ring-necked Duck

Gallery: AvianPosted February 16, 2014125 views10 comments

I have wanted an image of a Ring-necked Duck for a while and Saturday a friend showed me a location where he said we could set there and they would just swim by and we could shoot.

He was right and I captured my best images of this Duck, both female and male, to date.

Critiques are welcome and appreciated.

5D M iii with 500mm + 1.4 ext on tripod
f / 6.3 at 1/2000 with ISO 200

Comments

10 comments

Comment posted by Sharon Hallowell on February 16, 2014 at 10:37 PM

This is really pretty! Nice light and details of this handsome drake. So...your friend took you to Golden Pond!
Tiny little dust speck almost halfway between the bill's reflection and the right edge... Sharon

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Comment posted by Jerry Austin on February 16, 2014 at 11:17 PM

This is really great. The water is great and the ripples seem to accentuate the duck. The exposure is spot on. No nits from me.

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Comment posted by William Bickle on February 17, 2014 at 8:10 AM

Hello Harry

Beautiful capture...Good looking specimen!

Bill

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Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on February 17, 2014 at 5:27 PM

Very nicely done, and a nice look from the drake as well. I'm not sure the square crop is ideal, but that's a matter of personal taste. A fine capture.

Am I the only one who thinks this is the most mis-named species in North America?

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Comment posted by Rick Cloran on February 17, 2014 at 5:43 PM

Excellent capture! Nice pose and the lighting is a plus for the detail. My eye keeps dropping to the light ripples in the foreground. I'd love to see what this looks like with those cropped out.

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Comment posted by wade pettitt on February 18, 2014 at 12:34 AM

Really nice. I love the colors and the rings in the water.

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on February 18, 2014 at 3:32 AM

Nice job on the techs on this. Looks to be an 8x10 crop? I might be tempted to move back to original 8.5x11 and remove a bit of the FG.

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Comment posted by David Haynes on February 19, 2014 at 2:05 AM

Hey Skip,
Super shot. Pretty nice reflection, a great head turn, nice water color, and fairly sharp. Only thing I might do is crop a little bit off the bottom. Coloring looks spot on. Nice job!! Let's get together soon. Laughing at Jim's response. Is this the most misnamed species in North America? Too dang funny. You can only see the iridescent ring when the light hits it just right. Hard to get an image of it actually showing though.

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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on February 22, 2014 at 9:42 PM

Great eye contact and the centered comp works for me Harry.
Techs look great, well done!

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Comment posted by Patrick O'Healy on February 24, 2014 at 3:01 AM

Great shot

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