on golden river drake mallard

[christopher galeski]

took this last month on my local river,cannon 50d,400mm cannon prime lens,tripod,1/100 sec,iso800,f5.6,removed some noise in dpp,cropped and sharpened,and tweeked the colors a bit in pse7.thanks for looking.

[Randy Stout]

Chris:

The head angle,eye contact are engaging. Pleasant BG. I could see it cropped up to the bottom of the body reflection, as the reflection is distorted enough that I am not sure the head portion adds a lot.

I am not seeing much detail in some of the lighter areas, esp. on the tail. Might help to tone those areas down a bit.

Cheers

Randy

[Mark Dumbleton]

Agree with Randy regarding the lighter areas. A pleasing image, I like the green colours against the darker brown BG.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Lovely composition with a nice pose and a killer BG. I agree with Randy's suggestions. thanks for sharing.

[arash_hazeghi]

very nice BG and HA, agree with comments above and would also run another pass of NR on BG. TFS

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Nice one. I would suggest a lower shooting position and a little NR on BG.

[christopher galeski]

thanks all,for your comments,and I agree with what you all said.thanks again.