Spot Billed Duck: Profile

[Bibhav Behera]

This was shot in Karanji Lake.

I had shot this image for testing my teleconverter. Was not sure of the speeds I could handle at 420mm, so used f/5.6 for this. In retrospect,I wish I had used a narrower aperture. Shot from a paddle boat.

This is a full frame image.
Comments and Critiques welcome

Canon 1000D, 300 f/4 + 1.4x
SS 1/400
f/5.6
ISO 400

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice details and colours. The eye contact is nice. Sharp. I would have liked a horizontal composition. Did you try any? Thanks for sharing.

[Bibhav Behera]

Yes, Mrudul. I have horizontal compositions as well. Will post them next.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I like the colours and the eye contact. It seems you were close. The edges seems sharply delineated. Did you pull up the shadows? A horizontal with the full body will look nice. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Bibhav Behera]

I used fill light at 6 in Lightroom, and reduced exposure at -0.19 and recovery at 44.
Sharpening High for screen.

There are some clipped blacks near the lower left corner.