Here's a shot I took last December at the Brazos Bend State Park near Needville, Texas. It's unusual to see a Black-Bellied Whistling Duck flying alone. There are usually hundreds of them on this pond and when one takes off, they all take off.
I have a small confession to make about this image. I cheated a little in post by using Alien Skin's "Bokeh" plug-in filter in Photoshop CS4 to blur the background. This has the intended effect to make the bird appear much sharper than it really is.
It's a great little trick you can use on any image with a diffuse background but many wildlife photographers and most nature photography magazines frown on this practice since it's not "natural". Well, I'm no photojournalist and for me it beats having to spend $5000 on a fast super-telephoto lens.
Flying Solo
Copyright 2008 Jeff Lynch Photography
Shot taken with a Canon EOS 50D set on aperture priority (Av) using an EF 300mm f/4 L IS USM + EF 1.4x Extender monopod-mounted. The exposure was taken at 420mm, f/5.6 for 1/500th of a second at ISO 100 on SanDisk digital film. Post capture processing was done in Lightroom 2 and Photoshop CS4 using Alien Skin's "Bokeh" plug-in filter. Click on the image above for a larger version.
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