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    Default Northern Pintail Male



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    Art Kornienko
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    Love the isolaltion on this one, are the whites ok?

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    What a gorgeous bird! The whites on the neck may be a little hot. I would take a tad off the bottom. As mentioned great isolation and very nice background. Would love to see more of these.

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    Trivedi:

    Good comments above, but I can see some texture in the whites, and suspect they are not blown. Lovely duck.
    I would consider toning down the brightness of the brown areas in the upper background just to keep our eyes from being pulled away from the duck. Won' take much.

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    The whites look fine from here despite the somewhat harsh light. Here is a case where the chosen perspective is too low: by getting down almost to water level the distracting white BKGR elements were introduced.
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    Good look at the handsome duck. Whites look OK to me too and I agree a bit higher to even out the BG would have been good. Image looks to need a CCW rotation.

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    Handsome drake. The whites look good from here too. Good suggestions already made. You could choose to tone down those white areas during PP, but I agree getting it done in-camera is almost always best.

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