MALLARD DUCK - HEN

Posted by Peter M. Noyes on Wed Sep 24, 2003 10:03 pm

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I recently captured this photograph of a female mallard duck looking for food along the edge of a pond. Picture taken with a Nikon D1X with a 500MM F4. Nikkor lens with a TC 1.4E converter on Lexar digital film.
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by Anthony Medici on Wed Sep 24, 2003 10:07 pm

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If you edit the post and put

The image seems a tad noisy in the background for a D1X image. Possibly post production sharpening. Still the Mallard is pretty sharp.

What aperture did you use? Looks like F8 or F11?
BTW, the exposure looks right on.

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by Alan Murphy on Wed Sep 24, 2003 10:11 pm

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Hey Peter,

Not the prettiest setting for a duck. I think it's all those loose feathers. The bird itself is very nice.

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by Peter M. Noyes on Wed Sep 24, 2003 10:27 pm

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Anthony, Thank you very much for the help. I will try to remember to put the "IMG" tags around the file name in the future. The picture was taken at F11.0

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by Anthony Medici on Wed Sep 24, 2003 10:33 pm

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Peter M. Noyes wrote:The picture was taken at F11.0

Good guess on my part. Under the same conditions, I would probably shoot it wide open at F5.6. I suggest next time your out working with the lens, you take two image like this, one at F11 and one at F5.6. The narrower depth of focus will make the bird stand out from the background better.

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by Peter M. Noyes on Wed Sep 24, 2003 10:38 pm

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Anthony, Thank you once again for your advice, I appreciate it very much.

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by E.J. Peiker on Wed Sep 24, 2003 10:40 pm

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As alan said, the duck itself is very nice. The back/foreground is a bit messy. Exposure is perfect.

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by Jim Probst on Thu Sep 25, 2003 12:10 am

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Peter,

Nice image of the duck in its environment! Good work!

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by LHays on Thu Sep 25, 2003 4:03 am

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You've got the right idea and now some good suggestions. Some nice colors and details here. The best thing to do is get back out and keep shooting.

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by Laura Stiefel on Thu Sep 25, 2003 8:43 am

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Hi Peter. The others have pretty much covered the critique but I wanted to chime in and say it's nice to see another person from Ohio posting here.

I've never been to Wapakoneta. Do you have many good places for bird photography down that way? There are a few decent places here closer to the lake and Killdeer Plains near Columbus is excellent in the winter!

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by Steve Sage on Thu Sep 25, 2003 9:16 am

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Nicely lit and exposed. Probably a lower shooting angle would help here but probably would have put you into some mud. Less DOF would help too as some selective sharpening so the USM is not applied to the BG.

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by Peter M. Noyes on Thu Sep 25, 2003 10:40 am

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Laura, very few places to photograph birds in this area. We are probably 70 miles to your South on I-75 (11 miles South of Lima). I have not been to Kildeer Plains but would like to try the area this wintr.

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by Heather Forcier on Thu Sep 25, 2003 9:11 pm

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A little bit of "noise" in the image but a nice shot of the bird. As common as these birds are where I have been shooting before, I don't have a single image I like of them yet. Exposure and composition look good here.

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