Duck With Drinking Problem - Repost

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I took this on one of our evening walks to the beach along Bubbling Springs walkway. I think they call it bubbling springs due to the methane produced by all of the park ducks. . .

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Canon 7DMii, f7.1, 1/1600s, iso 400, -0.7 ev, 100-400+1.4tc at 358mm. Cropped for composition.

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Cool action on the duck’s part, Ed. I took this into PS to check the level and according to the reflection it is, though the angle of the duck to you makes it look a bit weird. When I took it in I noticed that PS didn’t ask me about the color space and its look changed radically, so I suspect you forgot to embed the color space when you exported this one.

Overall, this image feels a little dark to me. I don’t know how close the whites are, but I’d at least look at bringing up the shadows.

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Thank you @Dennis_Plank. I’ve reposted with the sRGB color profile embedded now. I brought up the shadows a bit more (the Upper and Right sides were in pretty deep shadow to start with). It looks a bit muddy to me now.

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I like the brighter aspect of the repost. Neat action of the water dripping from the bill and that the shadow looks pretty sharp.

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Ed, This is a fun image of a Mallard drinking. Very cool. The brighter version looks good, but I think something between the two would work without the muddiness. I see that you cropped for the composition…I might consider taking a bit off the left and adding some space to the right…that would put the duck a little off center and give him some room to move into…just a thought. It’s great to see a Mallard. I like to photograph them myself…Nicely done sir.

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What cute behavior, Ed. Perfect timing to capture this. Never saw that done before. I like your repost.

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Thank you for your comments and suggestions @Allen_Brooks, @David_Bostock and @Shirley_Freeman.

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