Black-bellied Whistling Duck

Sharing some recent captures from the Orlando Wetlands in Chirstmas, Florida. Thank you for viewing.

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Damn Reyno, what are you using to edit your images? ISO 400 with a 30D and these look like they were shot with a 5D or 1D. Very nice. I'd love to know what your doing.

Excellent shots, very sharp with great low angles and colours, I love the reflection in the first shot and the b/g in pic# - Beautiful!

Beautiful shots (no surprise!). Really unique ducks---thanks for sharing!!

Great captures and exceptional low angles, look like you are below the water line.

Thank you Mitch, Downywp, Jim, & Dennis for taking the time to view, Your comments are greatly appreciated.

canonloader wrote in post #3245153
Damn Reyno, what are you using to edit your images? ISO 400 with a 30D and these look like they were shot with a 5D or 1D. Very nice. I'd love to know what your doing.

I always shoot RAW and use CS2 to convert and process. Not too long ago, however, I found Ron Bigelow's site and it offers great and simple tutorials on using the most used features of CS2. Please follow the link. Hope it helps.
http://www.ronbigelow.​com/articles/articles.​htm

I use the same thing. I'll give his tutorials a try. What I've been doing is to run a big brush over the whole image with the Blur Tool set to about 20%, then either sharpen the color channels with Sharpen Edges our just use USM to bring it back. It works pretty good for less than 100% crops and it's fast, but nothing as good as your getting. Thanks.

Stunning set Reyno

Your usual great IQ.

Thanks Gary.

canonloader wrote in post #3248019
I use the same thing. I'll give his tutorials a try. What I've been doing is to run a big brush over the whole image with the Blur Tool set to about 20%, then either sharpen the color channels with Sharpen Edges our just use USM to bring it back. It works pretty good for less than 100% crops and it's fast, but nothing as good as your getting. Thanks.

I use the blur(smart or gaussian) but not the whole image, rather, I use the magic wand to selectively blur the bg first. The process can be simple as one time pass(if the bg has one color or the whole image has a uniform bg) or could be many passes. #2 for example is a two-pass blurr process but #1 and #3 required several passes on each color layer. After taking care of the bg, I then select the image and do a noise reduction. Finally, I would sharpen the edges. After these processes, I would then make the curve, level, saturation, & contrast adjustments. Btw, I always use the 50% view.

Another stunning series. Outstanding work as always Reyno.

Do appreciate your comment Sindri.

dancinec wrote in post #3246525
Great captures and exceptional low angles, look like you are below the water line.

Just about an inch or two above the water line and shooting flat on my belly Dennis. My greatest fear in doing this kind of shots is, that an alligator would suddenly popup in my face with wide open mouth.

Those allies aren't going to mess with you Reyno. I walk up to those ones at the wetlands all the time. They are more scared of us. Awsome shots Reyno!!

Thanks for posting more winners Reyno! I really like these.

Thank you Don & Dennis, do appreciate your comments.

DonE wrote in post #3250991
Those allies aren't going to mess with you Reyno. I walk up to those ones at the wetlands all the time. They are more scared of us. Awsome shots Reyno!!

I hope they always remain that way Don but I've seen em grab and eat almost anything if they get hungry. Like this one @ Viera not too long ago. There goes the Coot.

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Wow you all your photos are amazing!!!