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Good Double Duck
Good Double Duck
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Good (Basic Editing*)
Camera: Canon PowerShot A610
Location: Flemming Island, Orange Park, Florida
Date: Feb 5, 2007
Aperture: F/4.1
ISO: Auto
Shutter: 1/318
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Feb 5, 2007

 Good diving fishing duck.
SUBJECT: Fish-eating diving duck: a fish-eating diving duck with a crested head and a long beak notched like a saw blade.
Genus Mergus.
Mid-17th century. < modern Latin < Latin mergus \

Statistics
Place: 184 out of 195
Avg (all users): 4.2149
Avg (commenters): 4.3125
Avg (participants): 4.2090
Avg (non-participants): 4.2174
Views since voting: 676
Views during voting: 314
Votes: 228
Comments: 16
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/13/2007 08:58:15 AM
What a huge head!
 02/13/2007 08:12:27 AM
focus
 02/12/2007 02:36:14 PM
that's one big headed duck....i wish you had cropped out the water on the right
 02/12/2007 11:37:11 AM
poor duckie... looks like he was kicked in the head by a horse...
 02/10/2007 08:27:17 AM
oof
 02/09/2007 02:44:16 PM
A little bit fuzzy. Needs some level work as well
 02/09/2007 02:37:42 PM
nice reflection but needs a bit more interest
 02/08/2007 04:48:10 PM
Out of focus.
 02/08/2007 02:36:08 PM
Focus is a bit soft.
 02/08/2007 02:18:43 PM
I have to ask: What the heck happened to his head????. Cranial gigantism indeed!

That aside, it would be nice if the duck was on the right hand side of the frame and thus swimming INTO the picture rathen than out of it. The way this is currently composed all I see is duck and duck-reflection. Everything else is a distraction rather than complementing your subject.

You could also make this a bit stronger by cropping off everything below the reflection.

In terms of how it meets the challenge? Not especially strong but I won't disagree that ducks are good.
 02/08/2007 07:08:31 AM
The lighting of this image is kind of dull, next timne you could make the sharpness of the image a little better.
 02/08/2007 06:42:07 AM
brain tumor?
 02/07/2007 02:55:23 PM
Having more space in front of subject moving / looking , makes a more dramatic image.
 02/07/2007 08:00:50 AM
very nice reflection
 02/07/2007 06:26:21 AM
Too bad it's not sharper.
 02/07/2007 05:20:22 AM
focus and exposure issues


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