the ducky body is seen floating down the river as it is watched by its ghost and his three kids. as soon as i heard about the ducky challenge i was determined to take a long-exposure motion shot in Shenandoah NP. i wanted to do it on one of the big waterfalls, but decided that would be too hard... this was a lot of fun, even if it was harder than i thought to get it to float where i wanted it to. to allow a longer exposure, I used a polarizing filter (since I don't have a ND filter).
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ha! now that i've read your description, i really like this shot. i would try this again from a different perspective and with a mini-light taped to the duck so it shows up more prominently.
You know, I hadn't noticed the yellow streak at all. But coming back to the shot just now I did notice. Definitely a photo where taking a second glance is helpful.
(I was the "10" vote! I just really like it! :-) )
Unfortunately most people didn't seem to see the yellow-streak which represented the duckie floating away. Some commented that the tiny ducks should have been bigger... perhaps if they were absent altogether the yellow streak would have not been as easily overlooked. I actually did not like much of the rest of this shot. I have a bunch of other waterfall shots (such as the image below) that i like much better, but i didn't have a duckie with me on those days, and on the day I did my photo shoot for the challenge I didn't have time to hike the extra 2 miles to get to the prettier part of the river. Maybe I'll be able to compose a better reshoot for a future challenge, or just for myself.
Thank you everyone for the votes and feedback! I look forward to future submissions!!!
Yep!... I found!... Three yellow duckyes and a black one?!?... (I'm just trying to say that it's hard to find the main subject in this picture and the composition has too much distracting information). Try to keep only the bottom left quarter of the photo. It should work better. Anyway, good exposition and shutter speed.
Nice long exposure. But the ducks are lost in this image, a closer shot from a lower angle would be better, even a tight crop of this image would be better.
Took me a few seconds to spot the streak. About right, maybe slightly too long. Something needs to draw my eye to it faster or many will miss it. More intense? Flash freeze at the closing curtain, but block the flash from the water? Who knows...
Here I think a tighter crop would of done better. They are so far away we see more foliage then ducks. Your photo is pretty of a stream in the early fall.
Maybe some people won't like this since the ducks aren't prominant enough, but you definitely "included" them in your photo as the challenge description says, and this is a really lovely shot I think!
Nice shot, but the ducks are so small, I have to go searching for them. It does meet the challenge, but I would want just a bit more emphasis on the ducks.
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