I like the pose and bird placement in frame Might give it another pass of usm and clone the white in the upper right Elegant image
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Good morning Weasel. Very nice capture of this beautiful species and as Alfred had already mentioned good composition and I like the slight head turn towad the camera. I agree about cloning out the upper right hand corner. The F stop you chose was good as it blurs out the BG and shows of the duck well. Lovely capture and thanks for sharing.
Thanks for your comments. Al I´m not quete shore what USM might be, Not to good with all these shortned words. but i have cloned it out now and do like it more..
USM is the "Unsharp Mask", one filter to sharpen the image a little bit more.
I really like the version with the pure green background, that's definitely an improvement! The whites above the eye seem to be a little too hot for my taste, maybe you can check the exposure/raw if you have more detail there in the original file?
The re-post has a much cleaner look to it. I notice you also cloned out a few elements near the bottom edge of the frame to further the cleaning up - good job. Hot near the eye and near the tail.