Just Ducks
 

Down by the river with Dog - Grey Wagtails and Dippers didn't hang around, so all that was left were the ducks. So ducks it is!

#1 Coming
Mono as the best way to bring out the subject from the background
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/Markulous/Wild%20Birds/_MG_5441a.jpg[/IMG]

#2 Going
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/Markulous/Wild%20Birds/_MG_5440a.jpg[/IMG]

#3 Blur-by (rather than fly-by!)
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/Markulous/Wild%20Birds/_MG_5449-1.jpg[/IMG]

#4 Sitting Pretty
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/Markulous/Wild%20Birds/_MG_5475.jpg[/IMG]

7D, Sigma 150-500 OS

Some great shots there but the third one is blurred on the eye. :)

LOL! Yeah, but check out those feet! ;)

Many thanks for commenting! Appreciated! :)

I agree with oldboy about the third one. A faster shutter speed would habve frozen the action and the waterdroplets or had you panned, the duck would have been sharper and the foreground kept blurred.

Cheers, Chris!

TBH, I was after a blurred shot - you can see I panned as the feet are sharp and the trees behind are blurred, it's just that she moved her head as she came passed! :mad:

All good practice for Chatsworth Horse Trials next weekend - I tend to pan them as well! ;)

Im still a novice and probably talked twaddle lol......

I'd say you speak as you see it - and surely that's the best way? ;)