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    Default Hooded Merganser

    I found some of these earlier this year


    Thanks for looking at my Photos
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    Hi,

    I like the pose of the front bird, but the whites and darks both lack detail (I know it's very hard to get it right on Hoodies). The rear bird is a distraction. I would find the image to be better if the rear bird was cropped out altogether, and a vertical crop used with the front bird to the left.

    Richard

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    Welcome Robert. A great bird and neat behavior. Please post your horizontal images 1024 pixels wide at less than 250kbs. Image quality here is lacking; was this a very large crop?
    Last edited by Doug Brown; 02-17-2012 at 11:55 AM. Reason: Corrected the file size limit
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    Definitely one of my favorite ducks! I like the wing flap, but I do find the detail lacking in both the blacks and the whites. Don't forget to post your EXIF data along with your images.
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