Female Wood Duck Portrait

[Rodney Flowers]

I haven't taken a lot of portraits, but I am taking more as the opportunity arises. Here is one that I think is interesting. Let me know what you think. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Canon EOS 50D with 600mm f/4 L IS
ISO 200 f/5 1/640sec

[Randy Stout]

Rodney:

Sharp on the eye and bill. Perhaps just a bit bright for my taste. I might consider cropping up a bit from the bottom to move here off the horizontal midline.


I would have considered upping the ISO a bit to allow more DOF.

Portraits when they are doing something can be fun!

Cheers

Randy

[Randy Stout]

Rodney:

One simple thing to try. I found there were a some hot pixels in the image. Pulled the recovery slider to 50 in ACR to eliminate those, and it also brought down the overall brightness of the image a bit.

Might be worth a quick try on your part to see what you think.

Randy

[Mital Patel]

fantastic portrait this is.

[Rodney Flowers]

Here is a repost.

[Fabs Forns]

Rodney, the repost is singing! Great head angle and action captured. Female Wood duck looks like the ID.
Agree with Randy in the ISO increase.

[Phil Ertel]

Hi Rodney, I like the repost. Good action and sharp where i counts. Thanks for sharing.

[denise ippolito]

Nice repost. I like the low angle and the action captured. Randy made a good point regarding the ISO. Glad you reposted it. It looks good.