Spish, Splash, I love taking a bath...

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this Mallard bathing at Lake Mirror in Lakeland, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 390mm (585mm FFE)
1/1600 F/5.6 Matrix Metering + 1 EV ISO 1250
Post processed in Lightroom 5 and Photoshop Elements 10
Cropped for composition

[Randy Stout]

Joe:

That is some serious splashing going on. You did well to be able to focus on the bird through all the flying water.

I like the comp which works well with his angled pose and head angle.

I had been to Lake Morton once, but never Lake Mirror. How would you compare them?

Cheers

Randy

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Joseph, excellent bathing behaviour here, and just love how you have managed to capture sharp detail through the flying water. The greens of the head pop nicely, and if anything, I would try and squeeze a bit more out of the eye.

[Grace Scalzo]

A fun image to view with all that splashing. The eye could be brightened just a bit.

[John Robinson]

That's a splashy alright Joe. Agree about the eye. Great action shot.
John

[gail bisson]

I think this is excellent.
I love the curved body and slight tilt of the head.
Gail

[Alan Murphy]

Nice action. I would darken the mid tones.

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent image. Great bathing behaviour and water droplets all around and nice composition.
Agree about lighting the eye.

Regards,
Satish.

[shane shacaluga]

Very nice dynamic image. Agree on comments above especially the brightening of the eye

TFS

[Joseph Przybyla]

Thanks everyone for viewing, and commenting, very much appreciated.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Here is my final edit of this image. Thanks to all who viewed, commented and offered suggestions.