"Waiting out the Rain"

**paul leverington** · 10-20-2009, 06:44 PM

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**Randy Stout** · 10-20-2009, 06:58 PM

Paul:

Beautifully exposed, maybe a tiny bit hot on the upper mandible, but the overall balance is excellent. The soft light allowed the full color palette to show.

The rain drops and the "bubbles" tie the image together , nice perch, got to love those feet.

I might look at a version with the bird just a fraction more to the left, but purely personal taste.

Very well done.

Randy

Brian Barcelos · 10-20-2009, 07:57 PM

Randy pretty much said it all. Those colors are really lovely and the BG makes him stick out nicely. I guess you really do love being out in the rain.:D Congrats

**Doug Brown** · 10-20-2009, 08:17 PM

Another vote for moving the bird slightly to the left. On my monitor the duck looks slightly oversharpened.

**Raymond Barlow** · 10-20-2009, 09:41 PM

I might add some room to the right, but indeed a superb image Paul.

Daniel Belasco · 10-21-2009, 03:49 AM

Very nice. Like the rain. Could allow more space all around so the viewer could zoom his eye in to see the detail of this unreal duck.

**Harshad Barve** · 10-21-2009, 05:16 AM

beautiful image , I liked it very much as presenetd. would love to see this atleast 1000 pixels wide
TFS

**Stu Bowie** · 10-21-2009, 06:20 AM

These guys have such amazing colours, and you have exposed them very well. I agree with Doug that there is a hint of oversharpening on the chest area. I like the falling rain, and all against a great BG.

**Kiran Poonacha** · 10-21-2009, 06:27 AM

would love to see a bigger image, loved the colours, pose and details on this, congrats..

Ákos Lumnitzer · 10-21-2009, 06:44 AM

Bigger please Paul! 1,024 pixels wide that is.

I love this shot. For me it's the rain that makes this! :)

**paul leverington** · 10-21-2009, 07:36 AM

Whoooppss---Sorry guys. It's a much older shot so I didn't notice the size when I posted it. I reposted it at 1024 and toned down the jpg sharpening on the chest--still might be too much. Wondering about saturation. You guys think it's ok where its at?

Paul

**David Fletcher** · 10-21-2009, 08:14 AM

Coming to this at full size Paul. Very nice. Love the atmosphere caused by the rain and the details provided. Like the suggestions already made.

**Randy Stout** · 10-21-2009, 08:56 AM

Paul:

Presents well at larger size.
re: saturation - based on my recent experience, on the birds I saw, your image is slightly oversaturated. The blues look too neon compared to what I saw. Its close, but back it down a smidge perhaps.

Cheers

Randy

**Daniel Cadieux** · 10-21-2009, 09:15 AM

Oh man, quite nice!! I love the details...particularly on the flanks (you could selectively sharpen the ruffled neck feathers a bit more though). For me the saturation looks good, depends on how the light hits and it looks like it hit this duck quite nicely.

**Steve Maxson** · 10-21-2009, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by paul leverington

Wondering about saturation. You guys think it's ok where its at?

Paul

Really like the pose and the rain, Paul. Here's my take on the saturation - the reds on the bill are overdone - I would suggest backing off on those. The blues on the wing also seem a bit bright to me. These ducks are so colorful it's easy to get carried away with the saturation.

**paul leverington** · 10-21-2009, 04:39 PM

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**Steve Maxson** · 10-21-2009, 05:21 PM

Hi Paul. The colors in the repost look better to me. :)

**Arthur Morris** · 10-21-2009, 06:10 PM

Looks great to me. I stick to 800 wide too. Love the soft light and the colors and the perfect pose and the killer perch. Where?

While scrolling I noticed that this gets a lot stronger with some off of the bottom.

**paul leverington** · 10-23-2009, 08:41 AM

Artie -this location is a rather sensitive one so I have to keep that info under my hat. Also could you tell me if the 800 pixel count is something you do so the image fits most peoples monitors better, or do you do it more for the theft protection? Were you thinking a crop just above the knob on the branch?

Paul

**Arthur Morris** · 10-23-2009, 07:38 PM

Originally Posted by paul leverington

Artie -this location is a rather sensitive one so I have to keep that info under my hat. Paul

What is sensitive about a pond?

**paul leverington** · 10-24-2009, 05:35 AM

Artie--unlike the duck pond in chagrin, where the birds and animals are totally accustomed to people, dogs-for generations, and now up to thirty photographers a day, this area knows very little the presence of man. I can only go in there with a floating blind with a lot of natural grasses and vegetation on it in addition to the camo cloth cover. Truly it looks like an island. In the spring there are nesting geese everywhere--any pressure on them would probably lead to abandonment. The enviornment is sensitive to any person not in some sort of blind--and through my own experience a very well camoflaged one. After seeing the throng of photographers descending on the duck pond at chagrin, there's no way I feel I should make known such an area to the public. The place would get devastated.

Paul

**Arthur Morris** · 10-24-2009, 07:04 AM

Thanks for the info.

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