Captive Duck Portrait

[Lynn Wiezycki]

1/80s at f/6.3, ISO 200, Fill Flash, AP, 80-200mm lens w 2X TC,
Asian Aviary at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo, FL

[Brian Wong]

Hi Lynn and welcome!

Really nice smooth background and the lighting looks pretty with your fill flash. The green complements the duck. The catch light looks sharp in the eyes. I would try a little more sharpening to the face. I would also like to see a little more room on the left ... so that the duck has some room to "look into". You got down nice and low, and it has a good intimate feel, with a good head turn!

[Arthur Morris]

Brian's wish is my command plus applied the Linear Curve preset in CS3 and darkened the eye and lightened the iris a tad as the image looked quite flat.

ps: Love the bird, the head angle, the COMP, and the BKGR. No clue as to species...

[Doug West]

As far as species, it might be a Baikal Teal (male)

Doug

[Lana Hays]

Lynn
Beautiful duck with good exposure, wonderfully complimentary BG, and nice detail. Artie really made it pop. Well done.

[carole wiley]

Lovely colors. Repost looks terrific!

[John Chardine]

Baikal Teal it is, and very nice too.

[Julie Kenward]

Lynn, beatiful image and Artie really took it up a notch with that curves adjustment and eye treatment. Nicely seen!!!

[Maxis Gamez]

Artie's re-pose did it all for me.