Male Mallard

[Ron Caswell]

A Male Mallard for critique, Took this image a week ago and have done various cropping to it till I was able to settle on this. Thank you, Ron

[Daniel Cadieux]

Tremendous golden colour to the water, and nice light too. Comp works OK, I'd probably crop close to an inch below and add that above (if you have it) - you want to take advantage of that colour! Face is nice and sharp as it should be and because of that I don't mind the shallow DOF. I'd be tempted to lighten the iris a bit.

[Gary Esman]

Awesome background! Love the HA, Eye is spot on. Very nice detail in the bottom of the bill. Great job Ron.

[Joel Eade]

Agree, very nice golden colors reflecting in the water, feels like fall, excellent image.

[Ron Caswell]

Thanks for the comments guys. Daniel I redid a crop like you suggested, I htink it does work better.

[Mike Veltri]

Love the golden water, and details in the Head of the bird. I also like the edit more than the original photo.

[Steve Canuel]

Real nice colors on this. Repost improves it.

[Steve Maxson]

The background colors really make this image, Ron. IMO the repost is an improvement.

[Randy Stout]

Ron:

The repost is very nice, Daniel made good suggestions as always. Colors are wonderful, and the slightly smaller bird size works better in my opinion.

Be sure to post your tech. details with the image so we can better understand what went into the image.

Cheers

Randy

[Danny J Brown]

Hey Ron - This image is a bit surreal but I like it - very unique. I'm amazed at how much better it looks with the tiny correction you did on the crop! Good work and nice image.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the repost as well. The detail in the bill is amazing!

[Harshad Barve]

Awesome golden colors and details in beak , repost looks better
TFS

[Nagesh Mula]

Hey Ron, the repost looks much better mainly because of the relatively smaller size of the bird. As noted by everyone here, the BKGR is just awesome. Congrats!!

[James Salywoda]

Excellent colors and details Ron I like the pose captured and the repost looks better.

[Ron Caswell]

Thanks everyone, Thank you for the help in composition as I feel the photo has been improved by your suggestions, Ron