Wood Duck

[Kyle]

I visted Ottawa/Gatineau this past weekend and went on a couple of hikes. I found my first wood duck of the year. Unfortunately the duck was quite a distance away so the shots are not as clear as I would like. They are also heavily cropped. I was using my friends Canon 75-300mm which is a decent lens but seems to suffer a great deal from chromatic aberration. I toned down the purple to try to deal with that.
The shots were not sharp at all so I attempted to sharpen them a bit. I'm still not very good at it but I think it's better than nothing.

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All c&c welcome. Got lots more duck shots coming.

[Shadowman]

Nice efforts.

[IzzieK]

I like the story in this series Kyle...here she comes and there she goes, sort of thing...

[Kyle]

Thanks John and Isabel! While these aren't the best shots technically, I do really like the subject and story of them. I took many other shots that were much clearer than these but these still ended up being some of my favourites.

[Brownbear]

Hi Kyle,

#2 I like the story of the ducks coming together.

#3 You captured the colours on the duck beautifully. I also like the overall mood/tones on the 1st half of the image as seen by moving the image around in the lightbox (cropping in half) so it is all about the male wood duck.

[bnnrcn]

Hi Kyle, I especially like #3 and #4 with better compositions. When I first saw a male wood duck in one of the threads of CIC, I thought it wasn't real and it was just a toy I didn't know it had so nice shape and colours at all

[Kyle]

Thanks for the comments Christina and Binnur.
I actually didn't notice that the other duck in the shots was a wood duck, I was so excited about seeing a male wood duck (I love their colours) I didn't really look at the female. I thought she was just a mallard.

[Scouse]

Well done Kyle, glad you managed to save them.