I captured this image of a Muscovy Duck at Lake Morton in Lakeland, Florida. Muscovy Ducks are not native to Florida but have established a large feral population. No two of these ducks appear the same, each is a individual. When seeing this duck I was struck by the feathers on the head and top of the head, quite unique. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.
Nikon D500
Nikon 500mm PF, camera and lens supported by a Oben carbon fiber monopod with a Wimberly MonoGimbal head
1/2500 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 2000 Auto 1 WB, image captured at 500mm (750mm 35mm Equivalent)
Post processed using Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2023 and Topaz Denoise AI
Cropped for composition and presentation
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
H emay have a hair stylist, but I believe it also may need a dermatologist. Lots of fun detail, and nice colour. As per Brian's comp suggestion, pointing your lens about two inches more to the left would have yielded an even better balance to the image.
Pretty cool Joe, just control those reds to bring back more depth and so the detail you have there, comes out, you really do know how and it's not through Curves, Contrast, Levels or indeed..., sharpening. A little more too the bill tip would help to just define things a tad more too. Nice one.
TFS
Steve
Post Production: It’s ALL about what you do with the tools and not, which brand of tool you use.
Hi Joe. Really nice close up of this Duck. I've photographed them here a number of times...they certainly have dramatic colouring and detail.
Steve: to me the reds are now too dark...I've photographed a few of these and the reds are not that dark.
Hi Paul, it could well be, what I was suggesting was that by ‘toning’ down so to speak, there is a greater depth/form Joe can achieve from the capture and so more ‘detail’ is achieved without localised sharpening. I just feel that area is just running a bit ‘bright’.
Post Production: It’s ALL about what you do with the tools and not, which brand of tool you use.
Hi Steve and Paul, I agree with Paul that the reds are not as dark as Steve's edit. Even though it was early morning the light was quite bright on the bird. Reviewing the image I thought that the highlights were causing reflected bright areas. I edited the image in Lightroom masking the subject the intersecting a color range of the red so I was only working on the red. I lowered the highlights on the red to bring out more detail. Here is a repost of the edited image. WDYT?
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
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. Lots of fun detail, and nice colour. As per Brian's comp suggestion, pointing your lens about two inches more to the left would have yielded an even better balance to the image.
A little more too the bill tip would help to just define things a tad more too. Nice one.
