Clean-winged Teal

[Kerry Perkins]

North America's smallest duck, the Green-winged Teal, dabbles away the day as the sun sets... Topaz workflow DeNoise>Detail>Clean, gradient mask to blur the upper third of the image, color tweaks, etc.

[denise ippolito]

Perfect timing and I love the pose. The filtering is great but those water drops are to die for!!

[Dan Brown]

Good work on a fine capture, Kerry! He looks like a wood carving! The water drops are very nice! I think an improvement would be a more life like eye but very nice as is!

[Indranil Sircar]

Excellent composition and effect, Kerry. I love the pose and the warm light here. The water drop and the concentric circles are fantastic.

[Anita Bower]

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Love everything about it. The wonderful detail on the duck, the lovely light on the duck's head and breast, the reflections, the colors and tones. Wonderful work.

[Richard Lovison]

Kerry,

Beautifully done. I agree with Dan... it looks like a wood carving. If it were mine, I might experiment with keeping the eye as it appeared in the original.

Richard

[Kerry Perkins]

Thanks everyone for your nice comments, I appreciate them!

When I saw what the processing had done to the eye, my first thought was to mask in the original eye. I then had the thought that the filtered eye reinforced the idea of a wood carving. I do, however, like the real eye version too and think it gives a different feel. Thanks!

[Dan Brown]

Great redo, Kerry! It has carved life!

[Steve Adkins]

I know you said you might not have room in your house for a "drop" set up, but this is definitely a great work-around.
Super images, Kerry.

[Andrew McLachlan]

Kerry, the repost is absolutely amazing!