Shelduck Frollicking...

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image of a Shelduck bathing yesterday at Lake Mirror in Lakeland, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 400mm (600mm FFE)
1/2000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering 0 EV ISO 640 AWB
Post processed in Lightroom 6 and Photoshop Elements 10
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Karl Egressy]

Wow, lots of action here, Joe. Well done capturing the moment.

[gail bisson]

Love the sense of motion and all those water drops. Very dynamic image.
Great POV as well.
I would like a slightly looser crop ( all personal taste!) and I wonder if you can extract a bit more detail out of the whites in the right (bird's) wing.
Gail

[Joseph Przybyla]

Karl and Gail, thank you for viewing and commenting. Gail your right... there was more detail hiding in the white on the birds right wing. I used the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom with a little negative exposure and negative highlights to pull it out. Good suggestion...

[William Dickson]

Great capture Joe. Lovely action shot, with lots of good details.

Will

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Ton's to like about this great image, Joe. Nice work in repost.



Geoffrey

[Bill Dix]

Great splash from this happy shelduck. Maybe a little looser for me, too.