Mandarin Duck (drake) (C)

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image at Lake Mirror in Lakeland, Florida. The city of Lakeland introduced these ducks to this lake a couple years ago as an addition to the wild birds that frequent the lake. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 310mm
1/320 F/7.1 Matrix Metering EV +1 1/3 ISO 1600 AWB, the duck was in an area of deep shade so I biased the exposure by raising the EV, camera braced with elbows on my knees while sitting
Post processed in Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC 2017
Cropped for composition and presentation

[John Mack]

Nice portrait, nice bird. I think it's a little to tight all around, looks a little blue to my eye.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Hi John, thank you for viewing and commenting, very much appreciated. Here is a edit and repost adding a little to the left side and top, also adjusting the color a tad.