Wood Duck

[SleepingWolf]

 

[Antarctican]

Lovely! I like how there's movement in the wings (obviously!) but the head is still, and the duck is looking at you

 

[Overread]

Lovely focus on the eye - and getting him looking right at you is great for this sort of shot - normally there is the motion, but less eye contact in such shots.

 

[ocular]

I'm thinking I should shoot more often with my strobe Good pic

 

[SleepingWolf]

I'm thinking I should shoot more often with my strobe Good pic

Actually, this was taken with natural ambient light...no flash/strobe.
Shutter speed was set fast enough to freeze head but slow enough to show the motion of the flapping wings.

 

[z06-jim]

Nice capture, I'm kind of liking the blur of the wings in this shot....

 

[LaFoto]

I didn't think this was taken with only natural light, either. To me, too, it looks like a photo taken in the sun but with a flash. I'm surprised to hear this was not so.

 

[DigitalScape]

A nice image - like the others, I like the wing motion and the sharp eye/head.

 

[SleepingWolf]

I'm surprised to hear this was not so.

A normal intensity flash, (i.e. not a weaker fill flash), would have frozen the wings as well as the neck/head. This is the best of both worlds, I think, as the head stays relatively sharp and the wings express motion. Notice the last line, flash fired=false.



Here's some of the technical details if anyone is interested:

<exif:ExposureTime>1/320</exif:ExposureTime>
<exif:ShutterSpeedValue>8321928/1000000</exif:ShutterSpeedValue>
<exif:FNumber>9/1</exif:FNumber>
<exif:ApertureValue>633985/100000</exif:ApertureValue>
<exif:ExposureProgram>2</exif:ExposureProgram>
<exif:ISOSpeedRatings>
<rdf:Seq>
<rdf:li>400</rdf:li>
</rdf:Seq>
</exif:ISOSpeedRatings>
<exif:ExposureBiasValue>0/6</exif:ExposureBiasValue>
<exif:MaxApertureValue>30/10</exif:MaxApertureValue>
<exif:MeteringMode>5</exif:MeteringMode>
<exif:LightSource>0</exif:LightSource>
<exif:Flash rdfarseType="Resource">
<exif:Fired>False</exif:Fired>

 

[The_Caper]

Perfect timing on this shot. The exposure was perfect, great job.

 

[JoeDif]

Cool image.....I really like the wing motion