Autumn Mallard

[Mitch Carucci]

Simplify.

[Nancy Bell]

Great colors in the water! I like the idea of the mallard and his reflection but the reflection seems a bit too choppy in the body. Another possibility of presentation would be to not use the reflection and crop to a pano showing more of that lovely water to the right of the duck, if you have it.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Mitch, I love the colors in the water. I think Nancy has a good crop suggestion

[Julie Kenward]

I also agree with Nancy although if you could clone out some of the leaves that break up the reflection I think it might still work. You got a very nice effect here using the Simplify filter and the colors in the water are beautiful.

[Maureen Allen]

Love the mallard and the concept you have here, Mitch. The autumn reflections in the water are very nice. I think it this were mine, I would probably crop as suggested by Nancy.

[Christopher Miller]

Love the pose and filter treatment, Mitch. Those fall colors in the water are just stunning! I'm going to go against the grain here because I like it with the reflection(though it would have been even nicer if the reflection had been clearer). I would clone out the stick just to the left of the duck.

[denise ippolito]

Mitch, I like the reflection too even though it could be stronger the filtering has made it interesting. Neat pose and colors, I'd evict the stick too.

[Dave Mills]

Hi Mitch, I like how you handled the duck. The warm, pastel like colors also adds greatly to the overall. I don't feel the reflection is helping the image not being well defined and a bit busy...

[Mitch Carucci]

Thanks for all the suggestions.
Nancy, Cheryl, Julie, Maureen and Dave wanted to see a horizontal crop. What do you think?

Mitch

[Mitch Carucci]

The first image had a real reflection. Thought I would have a little fun and replace it with a "Flood" reflection.

M.

[Brendan Dozier]

I really like this Mitch! Wonderful pose, capture, and composition. The Simplify treatment works very well, but I agree the reflection is a bit choppy. I think your repost works nicely as another solution.