Shades Of Brown

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image of a female Mallard duck at Lake Morton in Lakeland, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 500mm PF, camera and lens supported by a Oben carbon fiber monopod with a Wimberly MonoGimbal head
1/2000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV +1.33 ISO 5000 Auto 1 WB, image captured at 500mm (750mm 35mm Equivalent)
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2022 and Topaz Denoise AI
Cropped slightly for composition and presentation

P.S. Learn more about Lake Morton in the BAA Middle Florida Photography Site Guide that Artie and I co-authored. It is available at this link https://birdsasart-shop.com/the-baa-middle-of-florida-photographic-site-guide/

[Colin Driscoll]

Lovely soft light and good fine detail. Unfortunately I find the pose/crop a bit awkward.

[Mike Poole]

I'd crop in just a little tighter Joe, maybe to just below the blue speculum. This would lose the more OOF areas and with all the stripes and tones I think you'd have a really interesting and fascinating shot of what we all consider a pretty mundane everyday bird

Mike

[Jonathan Ashton]

Nice shot it needs for me to be looser - or tighter as Mike indicated, sorry it looks chopped off to me.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Thanks everyone for viewing and commenting, much appreciated.