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    Default Woodie coming out of the shadows

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    happy to see the purple cheek patch. Planning to improve my wood duck collection this summer. This was my first visit to one of my favorite spots here. It was a beautiful morning with clear skies and very little breeze. A heavily wooded pond so there is always some play of sunlight and shadows going on. Tough situation to deal with....esp. with a duck like a woodie...but fun, nevertheless.

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    Another fine image! Interesting lighting with variation from the front to the back - tricky to deal with!

    Gerald

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    At my work monitor so I don't trust the colors as it looks too green.
    However I like the dappled light, esp with the accent on the head which is where you want your viewer directed, nice job.

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    The colors and pose are great however the head looks funny to me almost soft or noisy unlike your usual images. Maybe adding a little depth with the darks on the face will help?

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    Kaustubh:

    I like the pose, low shooting angle, birds angle in the frame, purple cheek patch.

    I agree that the colors look just slightly off. The contrast is also fairly low. I haven't quite figured out the color issue. My usual tricks didn't help.

    Perhaps someone else can put their finger on it.

    Solid image, just needs a bit more polishing.

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    let me go back to the drawing board and rework. thx.

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    here's a repost with some added contrast...played with Wb and some curves work.

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    Beautiful and colorful image. Sharp and well composed.

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    The repost looks good, almost all the green colour cast was removed, would be nice to know how. Excellent overall picture, Kaustubh.

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    Karl, I went back to the base raw file and selected a different WB. I had done some curves work on red channel that had made it look green. In my rework, I did not do that.

    Thanks for the comments, everyone.

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    Beautiful image to begin with, although the green did jump out at me. Repost helped that, as well as fixing the slight softness of the head. Great image; great rework. Wish I could find a pond like this.

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    Great image Kaustubh! I like the composition, colours, BG and repost.

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