p.1 #3 · Finally Saw Some Wood Ducks. April 21-22, 2017
Beautiful shots of a beautiful duck Mike, very well done. To my eye they would look even better if the duck were lower in the frame. They're so nice I hesitate to say it though.
p.1 #4 · Finally Saw Some Wood Ducks. April 21-22, 2017
reko wrote:
Beautiful shots of a beautiful duck Mike, very well done. To my eye they would look even better if the duck were lower in the frame. They're so nice I hesitate to say it though.
Thank you, will look at that, it is something that I thought about when processing them.
p.1 #5 · Finally Saw Some Wood Ducks. April 21-22, 2017
Well done, Mike, it looks like you've made a great use of golden hour light.
The angle finder obviously allows you to shoot them from a very low perspective, but does it hamper your responsiveness to sudden transients in behaviour, takeoffs etc ?
p.1 #6 · Finally Saw Some Wood Ducks. April 21-22, 2017
PetKal wrote:
Well done, Mike, it looks like you've made a great use of golden hour light.
The angle finder obviously allows you to shoot them from a very low perspective, but does it hamper your responsiveness to sudden transients in behaviour, takeoffs etc ?
Thank you.
That may be the case, but they are normally not doing that much flying around here. They are looking at the wood duck boxes and mostly just paddling around.
p.1 #8 · Finally Saw Some Wood Ducks. April 21-22, 2017
Great shots Mike. Love the low angle and backgrounds as per your usual high standards.
On the topic of reflections, like Randy I don't save them (basically crop away most of it) unless the water is perfectly calm. I don't like messy ones and I also like the bird lower in the frame. But those things are all subjective. That said I do sort of like the reflections in #5 for the rainbow quality of the streaking.
p.1 #9 · Finally Saw Some Wood Ducks. April 21-22, 2017
Beautiful images, Mike! Personally, I think the reflections in images 5, 8, and 9 are pretty nice. Reflection patterns in (non calm) water can be interesting sometimes. I like the light, background, colors, and low angle of your images. Great work, as always, on these!
Keith W.
p.1 #11 · Finally Saw Some Wood Ducks. April 21-22, 2017
Spectacular imagery of Wood Ducks! The low perspective, perfect light, apparently shooting through vegetation too, reflections. Doesn't get any better than this. I like using a right angle finder too. Great work
p.1 #14 · Finally Saw Some Wood Ducks. April 21-22, 2017
You do woodies very well Mike, and these are no exception. I agree with Robert that some might be better with more off the bottom. I think the ones with the less defined reflections could use a little cropping ~ Ron
p.1 #16 · Finally Saw Some Wood Ducks. April 21-22, 2017
mike you are the master of wood ducks and clearly the low angle is making them even better
TSF. It may be interesting to see 2 images side by side with and without the reflection, if is not too much to ask?
p.1 #17 · Finally Saw Some Wood Ducks. April 21-22, 2017
RandyR wrote:
These are great
I never save a reflection unless the water is calm
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arbitrage wrote:
Great shots Mike. Love the low angle and backgrounds as per your usual high standards.
On the topic of reflections, like Randy I don't save them (basically crop away most of it) unless the water is perfectly calm. I don't like messy ones and I also like the bird lower in the frame. But those things are all subjective. That said I do sort of like the reflections in #5 for the rainbow quality of the streaking.
TFS
Geoff
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kwilliam8 wrote:
Beautiful images, Mike! Personally, I think the reflections in images 5, 8, and 9 are pretty nice. Reflection patterns in (non calm) water can be interesting sometimes. I like the light, background, colors, and low angle of your images. Great work, as always, on these!
Keith W.
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morris wrote:
These are sweet Mike. 7 and 9 get my pick for the lovley reflections in the warm mist
Morris
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bs kite wrote:
Spectacular imagery of Wood Ducks! The low perspective, perfect light, apparently shooting through vegetation too, reflections. Doesn't get any better than this. I like using a right angle finder too. Great work
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fredster wrote:
Sweet looking images. They rock!
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kmunroe wrote:
i enjoyed your wood ducks Mike
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surfnron wrote:
You do woodies very well Mike, and these are no exception. I agree with Robert that some might be better with more off the bottom. I think the ones with the less defined reflections could use a little cropping ~ Ron
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Stephen-Jay wrote:
Nice going, I prefer #1, #8 and 9.
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kdacharya wrote:
mike you are the master of wood ducks and clearly the low angle is making them even better
TSF. It may be interesting to see 2 images side by side with and without the reflection, if is not too much to ask?
Thank you all for your feedback. After reviewing, I do agree that some need to be lower in the frame.
I'm not sure how I feel about the reflections, I personally like them, although some can be messy, so I can see yur point there.
Here is one that I lowered in the frame and eliminated about half the reflection.
p.1 #18 · Finally Saw Some Wood Ducks. April 21-22, 2017
These are so beautiful Mike. I'm going to go against the crowd, I love the reflections. Your water color and the backgrounds give these such a dreamy painterly feel. So nicely done.
p.1 #19 · Finally Saw Some Wood Ducks. April 21-22, 2017
birdied wrote:
These are so beautiful Mike. I'm going to go against the crowd, I love the reflections. Your water color and the backgrounds give these such a dreamy painterly feel. So nicely done.
