The Greater Snow Goose migration is in full force at the moment in our region, but there are other goodies to photograph at the same time.

With this image, I'm once more into my extreme-light kick with these ducks on the fly at first light. I love the heavily contrasted low-light found at this time of day.

Canon 7D with the 500L f4 lens on tripod @ 1/800, f4, ISO 640, +2 2/3 exposure compensation.

Cropped for composition purposes and to eliminate the head of a third duck behind the Green-winged Teal. The first duck's focus could be better, but considering it was not on the same plane as the second and the poor depth-of-field due to the f4 and lack of light, I'm not expecting perfect sharpness with total absence of noise with these light conditions, therefore I'm happy enough for this kind of shot.

Cheers,

Mike