Male Avian Competitors
Oct 14, 2013 01:18:01 #
Coots are very competitive in their quest for dominance during courtship battles for female pairing. These three images were captured during fight while a single female looked on a few feet way.
She's mine dude!
Stop ... you are choking me!!
You better back off buster!
Oct 14, 2013 01:30:53 #
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Oct 15, 2013 10:51:42 #
Nice... I am busy retouching some duck shots myself, but mine are much more sedate than these. Not as interesting, either!
Oct 15, 2013 10:56:54 #
Combine another "Wow" with Linda's "Oh my gosh, how amazing!"
Oct 15, 2013 11:20:00 #
devildoc wrote:
Coots are very competitive in their quest for dominance during courtship battles for female pairing. These three images were captured during fight while a single female looked on a few feet way.
devildoc,
It looks like the sun was your worst enemy, the angle of light coming from behind the birds, and reflecting off the water.
It is possible a Circular Polarizer Filter could have blocked a lot of the water surface reflections.
For the images you now have MetaGrad has some very useful filters for reducing the effect of reflections (Graduated Polar Neutral density. It will depend on the image editing software you are using. If your software will accept "Plugins", and those plugins have the ".8bf" extension MetaGrad will work.
Michael G
Oct 15, 2013 11:35:33 #
Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately, I do not have a polarizer for my 80-400mm, so your option is a good one.
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