Grooming D-C Cormorant

[Richard Stern]

Made this morning on the Fundy Coast of Nova Scotia. D7000, 300 f4 AF-S + TCE14ll, hand held from car window.

ISO400, 1/500, f8.0. Basic crop, levels, nr and selective sharpening in LR and PSE. I lightened the eye a little, and removed some poop from the rocks.

Thanks for comments,

Richard

[arash_hazeghi]

nice catch while he was preening. there is something totally wrong with the image though, the IQ is really poor as if it was shot with a cell phone or if it were a water color painting... you need to process again

[Joe Senzatimore]

Does look a bit strange. Was it a big crop?

[hennieloots]

Hi Richard - I like the pose. I agree that something is looking unnatural. The IQ on the bird is not great and the LHC rocks show clear areas of unnatural texture and almost OOF patches, I suspect it is where you cloned away some poop.
Regards
Hennie