Mama and the Kids

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I was recently at a friend’s pond to shoot their wood ducks and managed to get seven of this mama’s 10 ducklings.

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I cropped out the uninteresting upper BG area and ended up with a kinda “cinemascope” shape that I like. Do you think it works?

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Z9, 180-600mm lens, Nikon 1.4 TC, monopod, 1/1600th, f 9.0, 1260mm, ISO 2800, cropped to 2206 x 1146

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This is a sweet shot Dave. It is great to have them all coming straight at you. The ducklings a so cute. I like the overall composition and the catchlights. The full sized image seems to show the softening effects of the cropping just a bit.

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Hi Dave, Crop looks good to me. Nice to see a family of wood ducks like this. The birds seem soft as Ed mentions. I could also see toning down some of the highlights on the chicks. Nice catch overall.

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So cool, Dave. Wood Ducks are one of my favorites, but I’ve never seen their ducklings.

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The crop and the low perspective works well.