Killing Time Redhead Drake

[Gary Esman]

7D, 1/800, iso 400, 500mm + 1.4 TC.

Another shot from Saturday evening. Ran NR on background, hopefully not to much, debated on removing light colored area in the LLC Thanks for looking! Appreciate the critique.

Gary.

[D. Robert Franz]

A very nice portrait.. Lovely light and nice colors.

[denise ippolito]

Gary, Beautiful details, head angle, pose and light. Killer complimentary BG. The color in the LLC doesn't bother me.:S3:

[Ofer Levy]

Looks lovely to me!

[Tom Redd]

Gary, beautiful capture. Although the light area you mention is not really a major distraction, I think I might clone it out if it were me. Either way, excellent shot.

[Sid Garige]

Very nice image Gary. Great background, details and eye contact.

[John Guastella]

Sweet image all around, Gary - sharp, great exposure, pleasing muted colors

I have removed distractions like the blue patch easily with Content Aware Fill, sometimes requiring a little extra cleanup with the clone brush. Also, you could probably use a bit less BG NR -- to my eye the BG seems a bit too smooth -- but that's a minor nit.

You didn't mention the f/stop used - would be interested in knowing.

John

[Gary Esman]

Thanks all for your kind comments! John, sorry forgot to include f stop which was 5.6.:eek:

Gary.

[Ron Caswell]

Looks great Gary, Nice low angle and I know how much it takes to get that there :)

[Gary Esman]

Looks great Gary, Nice low angle and I know how much it takes to get that there :)

Thanks Ron, I was surprised I did not see you out there Saturday night.

[Randy Stout]

Gary:

Very nicely done, with excellent angle, pose, colors and BG.

Water drops add, I particularly like the large one on the curve of the breast.

I might consider just a bit of eye doctor work on the pupil. You can improve the apparent sharpness by evening out the black in the pupil a bit.

Hope to get out sometime soon, but weather isn't sounding too promising for the weekend.

Cheers

Randy

[Steven Kersting]

Nice shot! not much to critique.
There is something about the background which seems odd...areas which seem more OOF than others which makes it seem manipulated. It kind of creates a "halo" around the drake's head....maybe a selection issue when doing the BG editing?
The highlight in the LLC doesn't quite fit and I would probably remove it, but I don't find it particularly objectionable.

[Robert Holguin]

Great colors and love the low angle. Sharp and lovely light. Well done.

[yogesh_puranik]

excvellent low angle image sharpness and water droplets are adding value to the image..