Hello everyone! Just another ducky! But its not a flying female.
I like this shot coz I have no idea what this guy was doing swimming on the side, showing his belly and stretching his leg. I just thought it was interesting. I exposed for the belly and then I tried to recover some detail from the head. Uhmm! Dunno! I'll appreciate your advices and critiques. Thank you!
D300 - AF-S 300 f/4, AP wide open, 1/640 sec, ISO 200
Exposing for the whites was the way to go - the other way around you risk blowing out the whites and losing those details forever. In-camera, fill-flash helps with the darks...less aggressive work in PS afterwards ;-) But you did a great job recovering the darks.
Lovely image. I would only place the duck lower in the frame and do a CW rotation (your subject seems to be swimming uphill...)
Yes to the need for some CW rotation--I think that there may be two threads on leveling images in Educational Resources. Love the hairdo. Darkening the pupil would increase apparent sharpness.
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Good job with the leveling. Here it is with some Eye Doctor work and a bit of selective sharpening of the face. All done with QMs.
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Artie... that's really good! i like it. i was trying to get more detail out of it but I thought that was too much but it seems it works really well! thanks again!
The repost looks much better, I would crop even a little more off the bottom. Artie's repost looks odd on my monitor. The eye and head are quite pixelated.
Hey guys! Thank you for comments! uhmm! That leg! I was really wondering about him! I hope he wasn't hurt or something coz he was like that for a long while! I'm not sure if you guys noticed the other leg popping out of the water! Thank you!