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Hi TripLeader,
Let me first say that I am not a hunter. and depending on your intent for the image you may want more of a hunter's appraisal.
With that out of the way I'm not sure if your purpose is the man or the weapon. I find myself constantly looking from one to the other as they vie for attention. Partly, perhaps, it's the position of the weapon as he holds it....not (it seems to me) a casual pose at all but more of a "look what I've got" sort of pose. The weapon itself asks questions: it could be as small as a 22 but with that scope he's obviously (?) not going for targets very close and the pond isn't very far away: seeming to be a contradiction. The pond says "ducks" to me (in my ignorance, perhaps) but does one hunt ducks at fairly close range with a weapon like what's pictured with its rather large scope? Maybe so and again a hunter would have a different viewpoint.
His expression is a bit perplexing to me...not a smile, something quite serious seemingly. Not sure what to make of it. If it were my image I might try to lighten up his face a bit in post, as the overcast conditions make the lighting a bit flat.
I might go for a vertical crop and in so doing not have quite so much negative space on the LHS, and remove some of the RHS as well.
Do you have others with different poses perhaps? I'd like to see some other poses if you have them.
My two cents....
keith
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