Some Mallard Shots from Today

[yakfisher]

I got these as well today.

[Steve Foss]

Nice environmental mallard shots, yakfisher, and I like your juvie eagle on the other thread, too. Good to get out there and find open water, eh?

[yakfisher]

I might just be a hair warmer down here in the urban heat dome

[finnbay]

Nice shots! Hope to see some of them around here soon. I like the first one best!

[mmeyer]

Great shots Yakfisher. I like the 2nd one the most.

[yakfisher]

One more mallard. One of these days I'll set up a blind and wait to take some shots of the other end of the ducks.

[MN Shutterbug]

Nice shots, all of them. I think I'd choose #2 also, due to a less cluttered BG.

[mountaindew]

Great shots! Wonder what metering did you have your camera set on with those shots?

[Dbl]

Open water shots and ducks that are in their colorful spring plumage, good work. Now I know spring is on its way.

[yakfisher]

I was using matrix metering, with the first shot taken at 230mm, f10, 1/2000, ISO 800, ev -1/3. I explain the ISO thing with my eagle shot, but basically I wasn't paying attention. The second and third shots were at 300mm, f10, 1/1600, ISO 800, ev -1/3 and the fourth was at 300mm, f13, 1/2500, ISO 800, ev -1

[mountaindew]

Thanks for the info! Great shots!

[Sandmannd]

Those are awesome pictures.