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Mallard
Mallard
riley


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Wildlife III (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS
Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Date: Jan 21, 2007
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/500 sec
Galleries: Nature, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Jan 21, 2007

 cropped, resized, converted to black and white, sharpened, small amount of neat image, added border(s) - all not necessarily in that order - took lots of shots of a pair of Mallard Ducks - male and female and they kept swimming farther away - it must have been -20c with the wind chill on lake ontario

Statistics
Place: 203 out of 218
Avg (all users): 4.5041
Avg (commenters): 4.1250
Avg (participants): 4.5347
Avg (non-participants): 4.4825
Views since voting: 718
Views during voting: 338
Votes: 244
Comments: 24
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/28/2007 05:05:48 PM
too dark for my tastes
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 01/28/2007 11:01:02 AM
I guess it is too dark, esp. the head being darker than the body, also a shift of the mallard to the left (or its rotation) could improve the impact

the texture of the water is beautiful
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 01/27/2007 05:43:49 PM
elegant, understated... sublime in its way. 9 bump to 10. there's nothing better in this challenge.
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 01/27/2007 09:34:46 AM
Nice composition but the image feels too dark to me.
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 01/25/2007 09:41:25 PM
yoiks..... gloomy
 01/25/2007 01:02:18 PM
this shot in my opinion needs a boost in brightnes,i would position the duck moving from the left to right,as its left with nowhere to go.good luck.
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 01/25/2007 10:05:00 AM
This shot looks to have a good focus but it is rather dark. Also I prefer to have more space in front of the subject than behind it, it just seems to give the picture a better balence, imo.
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 01/25/2007 12:06:46 AM
Lovely capture, but a bit to dark to see much detail on my monitor.
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 01/24/2007 06:04:17 PM
I keep coming back to this one, because I think there's the start of something really good here. The roughness and texture of the water makes it look really cold and foreboding. But the treatment is just too dark, the head, neck, and chest of the duck just disappear into black. I think I would have gone with a square crop, too, to get the duck more into the middle of the frame, instead of swimming out of it.
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 01/24/2007 04:11:54 PM
Very interesting.
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 01/24/2007 04:03:34 PM
Maybe it was just not enough light around at the time of the day, still I'd prefer a bit more contrast.
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 01/24/2007 10:27:40 AM
very dark on my monitor ...
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 01/24/2007 01:23:12 AM
Interesting perspective. B&W is an unusual choice for what is usually a vibrantly colored bird, though. And I kind of want to see an eye when there is other detail.
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 01/23/2007 05:24:18 PM
too dark
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 01/23/2007 06:22:10 AM
This is too dark for my taste.
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 01/22/2007 08:36:09 PM
Needs a little exposure work.
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 01/22/2007 04:34:16 PM
Little too dark
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 01/22/2007 02:14:28 PM
I like the composition, but a bit too dark.
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 01/22/2007 01:29:08 PM
The B&W works well for this shot, but it is too dark.
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 01/22/2007 11:08:25 AM
needs the contrast pumped up a bit
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 01/22/2007 08:47:29 AM
Just a tad too dark.
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 01/22/2007 02:06:21 AM
The most appealing thing about mallards (and birds in general) is the color of their plummage. By converting this to B&W it takes away from that. This is also a bit dark (perhaps because of the conversion?). Compositionally it would be better if the duck was going into the frame rather than out of it.
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 01/22/2007 01:16:34 AM
Sorry, I gave this a 4, too dark and not enough contrast...
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 01/22/2007 12:32:30 AM
too dark, lacks in details
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