Scarlet eye in early morning - common loon in Michigan

[Randy Stout]

This fine fellow was captured last week.  Early AM with side lighting.

D4 600mm  f/5.6  1/800s  ISO 1250  from my boat

Cleaned up a few spot in water.  No saturation changes, eye as taken.

Advice and comments always appreciated.

It is always a great pleasure to float around with these guys!

Cheers

Randy

[BW]

A beutiful bird well photographed. Personally I would have chosen to capture more of the reflection of the bird, maybe in portrait format. But thats a matter of personal taste. Love the lighting!

[chris dees]

Beautiful!
Is this a crop or the whole image?
If it's acrop I would opt for a less tight one, so you can see the Loon and it's reflection in total.
It's a pity we don't have these on this side of the pond (except Island I think)

[chris dees]

A beutiful bird well photographed. Personally I would have chosen to capture more of the reflection of the bird, maybe in portrait format. But thats a matter of personal taste. Love the lighting!

Brilliant minds think alike. 

[elsa hoffmann]

absolutely beautifully captured. Wish it was mine.

[Randy Stout]

Thanks folks.

This image is cropped about 30%, mainly because the reflection was very distorted and didn't look good (3 eyes caused by slight ripples.)

In general, the lower the angle of view, the less useful the reflections.

I shoot with a right angle finder so that the lens is as low as possible in my boat.  So portrait mode isn't really feasible.