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Wow what am impressive image. I like the delicacy and the colours are absolutely superb. My only minor reservation is the head - is it a little soft?
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Thanks for looking Jon. I thought the same but I think it's those compound eyes playing tricks on us! The image added is a massive crop of the head from the RAW file. Looks Ok to me. What do you think?
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Wing detail is exquisite. Perch is very cool and I like the BG, tho I think you could bring the brightest parts of BG down a bit. Head and very front of thorax appear slightly soft compared to wing and abdomen. I think some of that is the compound eye as you said, but crop reveals the hairs on mouth parts and "shoulders" are not quite crisp. Still, a very nice image. Welcome back.
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Wonderful composition with the perch and the damsel fly in line with each other, and a lovely soft, featureless bkgd. I agree the wing details are impressive. The head details also appear a bit soft to me, but agree compound eyes don't provide "hard edges" for the focus to grab onto.
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Hi Dave. Beautiful colors, very interesting texture in the wings, nice soft light, and a good comp. I agree that the head "appears" a bit soft - you might try some additional selective sharpening there just to see if it makes a difference. Overall, this is very well done!
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