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    D70s 70-300 @270mm 1/100 f5.6 ISO200 0EV

    This photo of the little guy was taken a while back. I've used it as one of the various images I put on small note cards I print for friends -- thought I'd post it for C&C. Though my camera settings were still available, I found I'd lost a history of any adjustments I might have made. Please comment how I could improve my presentation.

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    Hi wendell - Cool looking bird - looks a little dark on my screen.

    I lightened a bit - sharpened the eye a tad and did some NR on he background.

    any better??

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    Hi Lance -- yes, I do like the eye better and the NR adjustment . . . but I'm not sure about the lighter body. i kinda like the more "contrasty" color on its back. However, could be my monitor, or my "eye".

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    Hi Wendell This is one difficult to duck to photograph ... can only do with excellent conditions like you had !!

    I like the lighter water and other enhancements, sets the duck great. Do agree on having the body a little darker, probably an in between favoring the darker. Excellent capture

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    Nice job Wendell. Agree with Alfred on the rest especially the body

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    nicely done, wendell! just a little NR on the water and the eye work and you have a big winner!!

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    Like Lance's repost Wendell, with the NR. Jpegs usually change colour when you are reposting. Also would tone down the whites on the cheeks a bit:)

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    Another duck with alot of contrast = challenging exposure. Nice job, Wendell, noise reduction enhances it.

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    Hi Wendell,
    I like the composition and capture. I like the colors in your original but like the eye definition in Mr. Peters' repost...I too would like a happy medium in between both...good show...:cool:

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    Nice capture of a beautiful animal. I'm not sure whether I did this little guy any good or not. The greenish cast overall comes, I assume from the cloud conditions, but in any case greens work against the reds and russets in the feathers. I didn't enhance the reds, but just removed the green cast. The water suffers not so much from noise as from jpeg artifacts due to low resolution save, so I applied surface blue to smooth that out a bit.


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    Hi David -- I like what you did to make the body pop, compared with my drab presentation. But I think I prefer the colorization around (back and below) the body on mine -- your re-post in just that limited area showing through the water's surface seems to me a little too "pinkish", or wine-colored. Thanks for your re-post; it is an improvement, I think . . . and I learned something because of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wendell westfall View Post
    Hi David -- I like what you did to make the body pop, compared with my drab presentation. But I think I prefer the colorization around (back and below) the body on mine
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