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mallard Portrait

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Posted by Colin Crowdey on December 15, 2009 at 1:09 PM
mallard Portrait
hello

the sun poked out from behind the rain clouds for just a few moments - enough to capture this mallard in some nice light - this is straight out of the camera, full frame, taken as is, just resized and sharpened for web

techs
D3 + 500 VR f4 + 1.4 t/c
1/500 sec at 5.6 -1/3 EV ISO 560

cheers for looking

Colin
Posted by Kim Connolly on December 15, 2009 at 2:20 PM
A beautiful portrait, one forgets what handsome ducks they are :toast: :toast:
Posted by Ian Haskell on December 15, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Nice! Lovely colours too.

Ian
Posted by David Sewell on December 15, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Gorgeous texture, you made the most of the light.

David
Posted by Fran French on December 15, 2009 at 4:10 PM
That light shows his colours well, very nice detail in the plumage too.

Fran :toast:
Posted by Dave Bartlett on December 15, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Great colours and well lit too :toast:
Posted by Ian Mason on December 15, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Nice rich colours on this. I wonder if you could tease out a little more details in the shadows?
Posted by Bertl Menegoni on December 16, 2009 at 3:52 AM
Like the intensity of the green.
Beautiful catch light :toast:
:wavey:
Bertl