White Faced Duck

Gallery: AvianPosted June 2, 201545 views5 comments

We were drifting on a boat on the River Nile in Uganda eating our breakfast when this happened. I hope this explains my strange settings.

I left the trailing duck in deliberately.

EOS 1DX

200-400mm F4 at 280 mm

F5.6

ISO 800

1/8000

EV -0.33

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by Jerry Austin on June 2, 2015 at 7:30 AM

The fact that you managed to get them all in the frame with nimimal overlap is a feat in and of itself. heh small thumbnail does not do justice to this image. It needs to be viewed large to see all the nice details you managed to capture. Nice shot.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on June 2, 2015 at 10:34 PM

Excellent, Ken, particularly for what must have been a "grab-and-shoot" situation. I like the patterns the birds form.

devil

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on June 3, 2015 at 1:52 PM

Definitely needs to be seen large! That is a beautiful duck. cool

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on June 4, 2015 at 4:03 AM

Thanks everybody , your comments are much appreciated devil

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Comment posted by Gary Minish on June 9, 2015 at 3:10 AM

A superb in-flight capture, Ken! The fast shutter caught them all in various stages of flapping quite nicely. Beautiful ducks and very nice details.

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