Male Wood Duck

Gallery: AvianPosted March 14, 2014496 views11 comments

Nikon D4
600mm + 1.4 tc
1/4000
F/7.10
ISO 1000
Manual Exposure
Metering Mode Center weighted Avg
White Balance Auto
Tripod w/Wimberly Head
Cropped 72%

Same San Diego location as my last wood duck image. This image was taken just after it launched and took flight in mid morning. Thanks for looking.

Comments

11 comments

Comment posted by Ken Archer on March 14, 2014 at 4:14 AM

Killer flight shot David

Excellent details, great view of the iridescent wing feathers.

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Comment posted by Hans Overduin on March 14, 2014 at 7:51 AM

Great techs on this flying duck and wonderful texture of the water - what more could you wish for ? Cheers, Hans

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Comment posted by Rick Cloran on March 14, 2014 at 11:49 AM

Bingo. I'll just enjoy it.

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Comment posted by William Bickle on March 14, 2014 at 12:04 PM

hello David

another Sweet capture. As Ken mentioned about the colouring Great..!:)

Bill

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Comment posted by Jerry Austin on March 14, 2014 at 12:34 PM

This is so good. Wood ducks are difficult to capture in flight, more difficult IMHO than most other ducks. Love the way the wings are frozen. Thanks for sharing.

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on March 14, 2014 at 12:43 PM

Nice wing position and love the iridescent feathers. Good work David.

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Comment posted by Bill Leggett on March 14, 2014 at 2:29 PM

Great flight image and excellent detail, David.

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Comment posted by Jim Hackley on March 14, 2014 at 3:19 PM

Wonderful wood duck flight shot, something you do not see very often. The larger version has very nice feather detail, excellent shot David.

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Comment posted by Rob Drummond on March 15, 2014 at 7:58 AM

Love the upturned primaries David

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Comment posted by Jagdeep Rajput on March 15, 2014 at 11:15 AM

A Killer image!
Jagdeep Rajput

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Comment posted by Simon Bennett on March 16, 2014 at 2:10 PM

Excellent fight shot.

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