What have I done

[Stu Bowie]

Apart from cleaning up a few dirty spots in the water - what have I done to this image. I will post the original later.

This is an Egyptian goose taken early morning this previous sunday.

[Raybel Robles]

Inverted the image upside down? :)

[Rob Melone]

Whatever you did, it's a lovely image with excellent detail and color.

[keith mitchell]

Stuart I was just thinking how tranquil it looked, then I read your note, not sure. Anyway I do like it !

[Randall Farhy]

Suart, that's pretty neat-I'll second the inversion and add something done to the eye-upper image the eye looks rounder and the catchlight appears different?

Edit-The more I look at this, I'd say the entire head was swapped in on one of these-the back of the head and area just under the bill don't seem to match-or is it two entirely different birds matched to create the illusion of a reflection?

[Holger Leyrer]

This is a really nice image. Do you have rotated the picture 180 degrees?

[Karl Egressy]

This image tops all the Duck images I have ever seen when it comes to having a perfect reflection, Stuart. Beautiful image, excellent IQ.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Sweet image Stu. Lovely goose-suspended-in-space feel. No idea what you did! You found the first pair of conjoined goose twins? :)

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Aside from the reflected area, you've removed all traces of water. Love the light and IQ.



Geoffrey

[Tim King]

Beautiful image. It has been flipped is my answer.

[Stu Bowie]

Well done to those who picked up its inverted. The water was so calm that it created a perfect reflection. I added a bit of sharpening to the reflection. I also removed the second catchlight on the real goose. Although the spots in the water look like dust bunnies, there are all dirty spots in the water.

Thanks a stack for participating. Here is the unedited version with the real goose on top.

[Frank Schauf]

Very nice. Love the reflection!

[Randall Farhy]

Fascinating how different the reflection appears compared to the "original"- back of the head, tail feather arrangement and shading, space allowing water to show under the neck and on the top of the back etc-I guess it's all dependent on the angle of reflection. You did a great job cleaning this one up, thanks for sharing-R

[Jonathan Ashton]

Nice shot Stu, lovely detail. In a way I am glad I was late to the party because my answer was wrong!