Ninja Wood Duck

[dankearl]

D500, 300mm, f4, 1/1600, iso720, Handheld, small crop.

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[greg cowle]

That is really cool, like it is spotlit on the head. Very artistic. Maybe a tad more on the RHS, but minor...
Awesome.

[arash_hazeghi]

cool dynamic pose and I like the dark mood, I'd try to recover a bit more detail in the shaded area on the body while reducing the brightness on the bright patch on the BG to intensify the image a bit
TFS

[kevin Hice]

This is great love the darkness of the background and duck coming out,wish the shadow from the wing wasn't there.Hard to get it all. TFS

[Randy Stout]

Dan:

Very dramatic. Purple patches showing very well, agree about the 'spotlight' effect description. I don't mind the slight light in the bg, but see Arash's point.

It would be interesting to see if you could soften the shadows mentioned by Kevin just a bit.

Wood duck season!

Randy

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

Very Dramatic Image. The black background works very well for this shot.

I agree on the other points made..
TFS