Muscovy Duckling

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

This image was created in April of 2009 and I'm not even sure what lens I used as my Exif doesnt tell me? I am assuming it was my 300 2.8 L but could have been my old 70-300mm. I also don't know the flash setting as it doesn't show either. I think this was before I started shooting raw or be fore I started saving my raw files . I used to convert to tiff then discard the raw yeah yeah I know WHAT??? New Port Richey downtown at Simms Park. Not much done here. removed a few bright spots NR and sharpening small crop.
I cut and Pasted the info that was saved:

Owner's Name
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/640
Av( Aperture Value ) 6.3
ISO Speed 500
Image Size 3888x2592
Flash On
Filter effect N :None
Toning effect N :None
Color Space sRGB v1.31 (Canon)
File Size 29652 KB
Date/Time(UTC)
Latitude
Longitude
Altitude
Geographic coordinate system
C&C always thanks

[Dan Busby]

That's one cute little duckling Cheryl! I really like the way the subject stands out from both foreground and background. Great low angle. Technicals are superb. You even have a perfect head angle catch light in both eyes. Very nice. I might try to eliminate that one light OOF area behind the bird.

[Robert Holguin]

Wow. This is a lovely image. I love the softness of it. Great shooting angle and wonderful background. I think lightening the left eye a tad would help to see some detail in it.
Very well done.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Very cute and effective used of the FG grasses as framing. Lovely BG too (but the OOF blade directly benind the tail catches my eye). Good use of the light angle you had.

[Arthur Morris]

Good stuff above. Sweet and soft as can be; looks as if it were Pixel Bent a bit. Note that this is a feral bird (aka barnyard duck) not the offspring of a wild Muscovy.....

[yogesh_puranik]

wow..it is really very cute..superb tech and eyes are fantastic image

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

That's one cute little duckling Cheryl! I really like the way the subject stands out from both foreground and background. Great low angle. Technicals are superb. You even have a perfect head angle catch light in both eyes. Very nice. I might try to eliminate that one light OOF area behind the bird.

Thanks Dan ,
Here I fixed the bright spot , thanks you two for bringing to my attention and I lightened the eye a bit too. Thanks Robert.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Good stuff above. Sweet and soft as can be; looks as if it were Pixel Bent a bit. Note that this is a feral bird (aka barnyard duck) not the offspring of a wild Muscovy.....

I learned that fact a few years ago and had no idea. I understand they are actually dangerous to our wild ducks here cause of disease they carry?

[Dan Busby]

Small change, big improvement Cheryl.

[Mital Patel]

Cheryl,

This is brilliant image of this cutie pie. wish could touch them.
That 3d feeling of popping out of screen is **** sweet.

[Xander Sales]

Wow, how cute and very beautiful!!!

Extremely low position of camera gives a very good composition. Nice!


Greet,
Xander