Northern Shoveler: Male.

[Satish Ranadive]

March, 2012. Lot of leaves on the left side and bottom were removed, cleaned the water. NR applied to bg.
Cropped and sharpened. I have not removed the black spot on the LUC.

Canon EOS: 550D, 100-400.
Av mode, F: 6.3, 1/640, ISO: 320, Spot metering, White balance: Auto. HH.
Exposure bias: +1/3 stop.

Thanks for viewing and appreciation. C & C are much appreciated.
Best Regards.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Satish, interesting pose with the raised foot and slight outspread wing. The greens stand out nicely on the head, as does the yellow eye. I feel the whites on the chest are a touch hot, and overall, I would decrease the contrast on the shoveler. Good clean up of the leaves on a lovely calm water, but I would have also removed the dark spot ULC. I would actually take a bit off the top anyway.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Cool pose and nice plumage on this handsome drake.
I like the sheen on the green head.
I wish the head wasn't turned away.
There's a halo all around the bird (possibly from the selection and selective bg treatment?)
I'd also try and get more details out of the whites, remove the dark blotches at the top left and move the bird off center.

PS: I was apparently typing when Stu posted his comments, hence the repetition :)

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you very much for comments. Here I am re posting with reduced contrast and some cropping.I hope you will like it.
Regards.
Satish.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Satish, you pretty much nailed it in your repost - well done.

[Joe Senzatimore]

The re-post does it justice. A beautiful duck.

[Wynand van Wyk]

Repost is much better. Lovely portrait captured here. Like the colours of the subject.

Well done.

[PhilCook]

We have the same bird here seasonally, but getting close enough for a good photo has eluded me so far. This is very nice Satish, glorious color in this image, very good subject isolation and no distracting elements, your repost has made it even better

[christopher galeski]

nice one,repost is the one.