Northern Pintail at Sunset

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

I made this image at Bosque Del Apache NM on Dec 25 2018.


Nikon D850, 70-200 f/4 + 1.7x TCII
1/500 sec; f/25; ISO 800, -0.3 EV
Shutter priority; Matrix metering



Post Processing:-
2x3 Crop
Capture 1 Pro for Raw Conversion
Nik Filters ( Pro and Tonal Contrast ) Lower opacity
Burn and Dodge
Clone out 2 twigs to clean image
Slight Vignetting


I wanted to make sure that in Post Processing, overall the image does not look too dark. Let me know if I succeeded.

Let me know your thoughts and comments.

Thanks
Krishna

[John Mack]

I like what you were going for here. The bird is just to small for me. The light reflecting off of the water is great and so is the color.

[kevin Hice]

I have to agree with John. First thing I noticed is the smallness of the duck. Also seems like you shot from an elevated stance looking down. Great colors.

[Dorian Anderson]

The water is really lovely, particularly in the foreground, but I agree the bird is too small in the frame to be really effective. It's a shame because the sunset is really nice....