Due an unexpected pressing need at home I have had to radically cut back on the number of times I can go out with my camera, which is why I have been posting so rarely here lately.
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Common Goldeneye Ducks passing during their time in in March Ottawa on their way up north to their breeding grounds in the Boreal Forest.
A major challenge in filming these Goldeneye ducks, which are both pure white and pure black in places, is that in order to show their stunning iridescent colours you need to film them in full bright sunlight. However, then you'll have the problem of limited dynamic range and getting the exposure just to not blow out the details in the highlights or to crush the details in the blacks and shadows. I used Canon C-log3 as my video profile and paid pretty close attention to my exposure settings. Although the results are perfect I'm nevertheless pretty happy with them, there are lots of details in the the whites and the blacks.
