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[kostas nianiopoulos]

canon eos 50d
shutter speed 1/256
lens aperture 5,7
focal length 200mm
iso 320

thanks for your time .

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Kostas I see I'm not the only one shooting domestic ducks !!! :)

Sharp and well exposed, might want to crop a little tighter to have the beauty larger in frame. Not sure if you could have waited for the duck to move a bit more but good to look for a smother bg !! ... just what I see to the left looks good !!!!

[Gus Cobos]

Hi Kostas,
A handsome looking fellow you got there...:D I agree with Mr. Forns on a tighter crop. I would recommend cropping 1/4 from the right side of the frame, and 1/4 from the top, and blurring the background a tad more...I would have liked to have seen a better head angle, a few points CCW rotation...looking forward to your next one...:cool:

[Jeff Cashdollar]

Nice exposure techs but wait until they are even with lens or looking your way for a stronger image. The key is to get the eye as a center piece of the shot. It must be clean, sharp and have adequate light. As mentioned above, watch your backgrounds, keep them simple and clean. Move about if possible, I know sometimes it is not.

[Lance Peters]

All techs covered above - just a tighter crop.
TFS

[kostas nianiopoulos]

ok thank u so much for the replys . for the crop and the blur i can do it ok . but for me the think that i would like in this image is to get more clear the nose of the duck ... well this is image and is not easy to find him again any more as i am away from him , 400 miles maybe ..

One other thing i wanted to ask here . I see a lot ppl here to talk about the (BG) i don't know what is the meaning of these two latters . So if some read this lines , please give me a minute from your time and tell me ..
thank u so much ..

[Lance Peters]

ok thank u so much for the replys . for the crop and the blur i can do it ok . but for me the think that i would like in this image is to get more clear the nose of the duck ... well this is image and is not easy to find him again any more as i am away from him , 400 miles maybe ..

One other thing i wanted to ask here . I see a lot ppl here to talk about the (BG) i don't know what is the meaning of these two latters . So if some read this lines , please give me a minute from your time and tell me ..
thank u so much ..

BG = Background :)

[kostas nianiopoulos]

Thank u so much Lance, thanks a lot ...

[Harold Davis]

great light and awesome detail!! agree with the others suggestions.

come see me, kostas. i have a few hundred of those ducks you can photograph!!

[kostas nianiopoulos]

great light and awesome detail!! agree with the others suggestions.

come see me, kostas. i have a few hundred of those ducks you can photograph!!

thank u so much harold this is a verry nice idea . lucky u may get images of those all the time . :)

[Thanaboon Jearkjirm]

Very first time for me for seeing a duck like this, very interesting indeed. Like the sharpness and the details, especially the red bump around the eye and the feather around the neck. Agree with a tighter crop. The OOF circle in the background distract a bit off the duck.