Thanks Sandy for your input. I’ve not been responding too much to the critiques on my images but I have been reading, and sometimes applying the suggestions. I highly value these inputs for trying to improve my chops.
One of the more attractive ducks and you captured this nicely with good detail and handling of the blacks and whites. Would agree with Sandy regarding the comp.
Nice detail and an excellent job on the exposure, Dave. To my eye, the reflection doesn’t add much to this image. I think you could crop up quite a bit from the bottom and add some on the right and possibly the top, since it seems to be swimming away a bit.
Bird looks really good. Exposure shows both the whites in the hood and the blacks well. The feather detail looks very good, though I think I am starting to see some image degradation due to the crop. I don’t particularly mind the comp. as-is, but I could def. see a horizontal version.