Hooded Merganser out for a Swim

[David_MC]

Plenty of these guys out at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge this morning.
Hooded Merganser by David Covarrubias, on Flickr

[HansE]

Well captured. In focus and well positioned. Looks different to us on the other side of the world.

[David_MC]

Thanks Hans!

[Isac]

Quite an unusual looking bird David. Fabulous colours and well photographed. I think maybe a crop and place the bird lower left using R.O.T. to would give it a bit more appeal, using positive and negative space. Only my thoughts, of course

[Isac]

All good David - just a thought. 40mp would be great for cropping. I only have 20mp so that equates to yours being bigger than mine X2. My lovely wife says it's not the size that matters, but how you use it. I just know she was talking about the camera.

[David_MC]

Haha.

The jump from 20 to 40mp was significant, so was the 9 years worth of sensor tech improvements.

[Isac]

I agree it's quite a big difference, an extra 20MP. Camera sensor improvements have been ongoing for many years buty recently like everything "tech" has seen enormous improvements in recent years.

[wigz]

Spectacular bird David, and nicely exposed. I don't mind the positioning of the bird horizontally but I think taking a bit from the top would give more impact to the bird.

Going by the Flickr images, that isn't that much of a crop. I've been known to crop a 2511 x 1804 image from the full 8256 x 5504 frame. Only good for web display really, but you could probably get a 10x8 print from it.

[MJ224]

Nice peaceful pose David,...