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    Default Cormorant - Preening

    Cormorant preening - shot with Nikon D300s with Sigma 50-500mm, at 500mm.
    F/10, 1/1000 sec., ISO 400, -0.3 comp. Spot metering. With monopod. PP in LR and NIK.

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    Beautiful image Peter,good detail and nice light,may be a bit more room top and right side for me,well done.

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    The details are sharp as posted, and the BG looks good. So do the colours. I'd look into opening up the blacks as I'm sure there are more details in there somwhere, and I do find the composition rather tight.

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    I like the colors here and also the composition.I like how nicely you have framed the bird,but would have loved a little more space towards the right( front of the bird) and top of the frame.Great Work,Peter

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    Hi Christopher.

    Thanks - appreciate the comments. I do have room on the right side to open up that area a bit. When I have some time I'll re-work and re-post.

    Pete

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    Beautiful image Peter,good detail and nice light,may be a bit more room top and right side for me,well done.

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    Hi Daniel,

    Thanks - Christopher also found it a bit tight on the right side so I'm detecting a bit of a theme. As I mentioned to Chris I will re-visit this one to open up the right side and perhaps run it through NIK (color efex) to see what I can bring out in the black feathers.

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    The details are sharp as posted, and the BG looks good. So do the colours. I'd look into opening up the blacks as I'm sure there are more details in there somwhere, and I do find the composition rather tight.

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    Sanjeevprakash - thanks for the comments. All of you have mentioned the the right side so I will definitely open that up. Will re-post when I get a few minutes to work on it.

    Pete

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    I like the colors here and also the composition.I like how nicely you have framed the bird,but would have loved a little more space towards the right( front of the bird) and top of the frame.Great Work,Peter

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    Based on the comments regarding the wing detail and the extra room needed on the right side here is a re-worked version. Nothing dramatic - just some extra room right and top, and in Color Efex I set two points (feathers in lower left, and feathers on the head). Detail extractor set to 24, saturation 2, and contrast to 7. When I pushed it much more than this it started to look a bit artificial.

    Comments welcome.

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    The re-post is perfect,peter.TFS

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