American Wigeon

[Bill McCrystyn]

D300 70-200VR 1.7X ISO800 F/7.1 1/2000 EV+0.33

Wigeon's as common as Pigeons are still fun to watch as they fly in noisy groups across the water. This male struck out alone and gave me an easy target.

[Maxis Gamez]

Hi Bill,

This one looks soft in my monitor. The sky is wonderful!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great wing position and eye contact. I agree on the softness, is this a heavy crop?

[Bill McCrystyn]

Thanks guys, I actually soften the brown neck area to clean up some messy feathers and applied the clone brush too soft I think. The head, eye and bill look sharp I think and I thought the wing definition was pretty good. I will rework and re-sharpen my Jpeg. It is definetly not as sharp as my un-compessed TIFF file. The sky even suprised me. It is, as is. The crop was about 50% and I don't think is the problem

[Bill McCrystyn]

The comparison looks better. Maybe for this one I needed everything I had on the Tiff and just can't get it here on the Jpeg. I appreciate your help with it.

[Fabs Forns]

Very nice flight pose. It loks a bit soft and the repost shows some halos from sharpening.

[Linda Robbins]

Great flight pose. Agree that it looks a bit soft, and that the repost seems oversharpened and somewhat noisy. Widgeons as common as pidgeons made me smile!

[Bill McCrystyn]

Thanks everyone. I'm gonna start from scratch on this one again. If I can get it right I'll repost. Close but no cigar doesn't get it. Thanks for the smile Linda, all was not lost.