Green-winged teal

[Enrique Patino]

taken back in January at a local pond.
7D, 700mm @ f/5.6, 1/250, ISO 800, HH
feedback and comments welcome.

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent image of handsome duck. Very nice pose,colors and details. I like the grass thread with water droplets on his beak and absolutely superb BG.

Regards,
Satish.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Enrique, given the techs awesome sharpness /detail, very nice overall , just might knock back the blues .

TFS Andreas

[MiroslavMaric]

Well done short. Like the color and light, BG is superb. TFS. Cheers! Miro

[Karl Egressy]

Excellent details and nice colors. The low angle shooting worked very well, Enrique.

[Arthur Morris]

Hi Enrique, Low angle and BKGR tones superb. Unlike everyone above, I feel that this image has several problems:

1-the bird is angling ever-so-slightly away from you. A bit of a look-back head turn would have helped there....
2-the left hand of the two dark verticals in the URC is distracting as it is too close to both the bird and the middle of the frame.
3-the green and brown tones of the head seem to be lacking fine feather detail (something that I rarely notice or comment on) possibly due to being over-processed either over-lightened, over-shadow highlighted, or over-NIKked....

[Bill Dix]

A lovely mood to this one, Enrique. Love the water color and POV. Yes, a bit of head turn would bring it up a notch, and I would smooth out the dark vertical above the bill. The detail looks pretty good on my screen. My first reaction (OK, second after the head turn) was that the bird might need lightening up just a bit, but the more I look at it, I'm not sure about that. I like it.

[vishaljadhav]

I love the low level shot makes it very pleasing to the eye
the BG is nice in colour
Sharpness is nice

[Enrique Patino]

Thank you all for the comments and feedback.

Arthur,
1- I agree - other frames were worse and I wanted feedback on this image for PP issues
2- I agree - If this image was a keeper, I would try low opacity clone stamp and work at making it look natural w/o this problem...
3- Appreciate your feedback on this. I see fine detail, but to you it has problems - so I take note. Thanks!

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Awesome low POV, lovely BG and colour palette. Rest Artie has already dealt with.

[arash_hazeghi]

lovely low angle in sweet light. Artie has some good suggestions. Yo my eye, the head does appear to have lost detail a bit, it could be because it was wet. adding a bit contrast to that area might help

TFS

[adrian dancy]

Nice lighting. The detail holds up, but possibly a bit mushed by processing and as suggested by Arash the fact the head is not long out of water can reduce details. The same can occur when feathers are pulled in. The detail however is (in my view) sufficient and subject to suggestions can be improved.