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    Things are pretty quite here in Portugal atm but I captured this shrike earlier today.
    Managed to climb up a pile of wood to improve POV
    Really just noise red and added sat, light from right and crossed but overcast.
    I did however get to see a Little Owl , they will hopefully be showing more as spring advances.
    7D 100-400 50 CROP HH 1/400 ISO 400 Ev +2.33 Manual exposure



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    EXP, SH, and head angle spot on. Though I am not a huge fan or near-square crops there is just too much white at the top....
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    Nice pose captured Richard, but the shooting angle looks a little steep.

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    Loved the pose, HA, exposure and sharpness..Angle is steep and BG is not something I like but sometimes we take what we get..

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    You are totally right Artie
    Now using manual exposure from now on :-)

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    You are totally right Artie
    Now using manual exposure from now on :-)
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    Art

    right about too much white!

    was pleased re exposure - - have started to use manual exposure for all shots...sorry my bad

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    Just a little small in the frame I think, but easy to fix of course with a crop, some nice detail coming through and light on the eye. A shame about the overcast conditions, but I wonder if a slight color saturation would lift this image more, however that may make the bird and plant look unnatural, it just lacks a little contrast against the bleached sky as is.

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    Hi Phil

    already added as much sat as I think acceptable, these are a little mono in reality
    thanks - - weather bad here atm hence lack of posts

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