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Male Wood duck chick
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Male Wood duck chick

by Rick Turner

Gallery: AvianPosted June 14, 201283 views4 comments
The month old male swims along Turtle Creek. You can see the faint color coming in the face and very top of head.

Sony a77
Sony G Zoom 70-400
Hand held on ground
ISO 640
F 6.7 @1/250 sec
LR3 raw
PS5 process

Comments

4 comments
Comment posted by Allen Brooks on June 14, 2012 at 1:19 PM
Like this a lot. Like the blue in the beak, eye, and body. Like the foreground and background. Perhaps the white in the face is blown out, but that's minor. Very nice photo. :toast:
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Comment posted by Richard Ditch on June 14, 2012 at 1:29 PM
An interesting subject, but there are serious issues with image quality. The larger version shows focusa was missed and a lot of post processing apparently was done to try to overcome that.
Registered on November 1, 2003, 1031 Posts, 12705 Comments
Comment posted by Barb Pflaum on June 14, 2012 at 2:08 PM
Nice little duck and I like the drop of water at the tip of the beak. Nice background and foreground. The duck looks oversharpened to me, especially in the larger image.
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Comment posted by Rick Turner on June 14, 2012 at 2:10 PM
My error in oversharpening :biggrin:
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