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    Default Catch of the day!

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    An African Fish Eagle with a Tiger fish.
    Taken from a boat on the Rufiji River, Selous GR- Tanzania.

    D3s 500 f/4 VRII f/5.6 1/1600s ISO800 30% crop, CS5.

    C & C most welcome

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    Hi Marc, the bird with the most beautiful call, and I could listen to it for hours. Excellent exposure, especially on the whites, and I like how the FE is perched in the open, with no hinder of foliage. I can see a version with you placing the FE a little further into the ULC. Taking a little off the top and LHS will sort that, or of course, recropping the original. But you knew that.

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    Beautiful capture Marc.
    Love the pose of the eagle and the fish in its talons.
    I do find the BG a bit distracting, especially on the LH side, although it does frame the eagles head and neck well.
    No doubt everyone will have their own opinions on the crop, personally I think a vertical crop would work well, losing alot of the foliage on the left side and perhaps coming in as far as the fork in the branch on the RH side.

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    Great pose, nice capture by you and the eagle. I like the head turn, and the talons on the fish. Lots of environment in this, which tends to overpower the subject for me. Might have been tempted to crop a bit further if the IQ holds up.

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    I agree with the previous comments. The large amount of white in the background is distracting so if it could be darkened down would help I think.

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    This is quite a fine image and for the most part, the environment works nicely. I think I would tighter up the crop just a little on top by cropping out the upper left white spot. This makes for a good story!
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    nice capture,good details in the bird,the fish is a bonus,nice pose and perch,agree on some form of cropping.TFS.

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