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    Default American Wigeon.

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    A few winter ducks are beginning to show up at my pond.
    Taken today.
    D500, 500pf, f5.6, 1/3200, iso1100
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    Dan Kearl

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    Dan, nice angle, light and wing position, you are a little hot on some of your whites but besides that I like it.

    -Tim

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    A fine shot Dan full of action and well focused. Have you been using Nik filters or similar, I wonder if I see a little masking errors on the lower edge of the left wing?
    The shallow DOF shows the duck beautifully against the grey water.

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    A lovely bird with good timing and wing position. It looks a bit tricky to expose with that clean white beside what looks almost black.

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    Perfect BG for this colorful beauty, Love the details and even like the head completely against that far wing. TFS

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    Love the bird but not so crazy about the BG.
    The white on the wing is soooo hard to control. It requires significant underexposing of the rest of the bird.
    In my own experience, that rarely results in a good image so I think this is pretty good!
    Gail

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    Love the pose. The wing position is nice. Light looks pretty good as well. Composition is right on.

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    Pretty much perfect. Killer wing position. Good catch by Jon of the dark small triangle between p-5 and p-6 (I think)...

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    Looking real good....Nice flight pose, details and colours throughout.

    Will

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