Beautiful job on this duck. There's a couple of hot spots in the whites, easy to fix. Nicely composed and sharp. I would work some on the eye, because these ducks have funky pupils, hard to render sharp. Blow it up and work on the dark pupil, it will definitely improve you image.
Nice pose and COMP. Whenever you work off-angle to the light (from the left here) with dark and white subjects, you will have contrast problems.
Did you do some work on the white oval face patch? There is a really funky grey border...
later and love, artie
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