Waterfowl Season Memories

It is hard to believe another duck and goose season is over with but the season ended on January 12 which was as usually, seemed all too soon. The season started off alittle slower than normal but the good months of the season resulted in mallards and geese right in the decoys. When the conditions were right, I was putting down the shotgun and picking up the camera.

This season, I used the Nikon D90 and had either the Nikon 18-105mm or Sigma 50-150 lense fitted on it. For the majority of the images, I had the camera set to RAW but when needing a faster fps, I would switch to jpeg on those big flocks of birds. The camera was left on AV mode ranging from an f-stop from f5.6 to f10 to control the depth of field. I tried to keep the ISO as low as possible while still getting the shutter speed I needed to produce sharp images of incoming birds.

The images below were processed in ViewNX, Adobe Camera RAW and PSE8. Each program allowed me to process the images in different ways whether changing the exposure compensation, white balance, crop factor, curves, etc. Some of them turned out so well out of the camera, the adjustments were very minor and those are the most rewarding knowing that you nailed the settings out in the field.

I’m already looking forward to the spring snow goose season and hope to have the camera mounted on a tripod more firing it remotely behind the blinds.

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