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    I captured this image last October at Circle B Bar Reserve. Comments and critique are welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

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    Cropped for composition, noise reduction to background, Iris Enhance on the eye
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    Attractive color and comp.
    A bit of a halo around the head.....
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    Joe, I like the framing of this as well as the oof background. Overall, the image seems too bright and I think the colors would look more pleasing and saturated if you lower the brightness.

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    Thanks Dan and John for viewing, commenting and offering suggestions. Dan, what appears to be a halo at the top of the head was out of focus feathers apparently on the backside. I cloned them out. John, I lowered the brightness a tad, I like it better. Thanks again.
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    Very nice image Joe. I love how the colours all blend and make it easy on the eye. Great pose and POV. Well done and thanks for sharing

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    Very nice image, Joe. I think the repost looks better.

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    I love this species, and you got it on a very nice perch. Strong light...and I feel the image feels a tad bright even on the respost. The darkest blacks are quite dark already so it may be a reduction on the midtones that could further help. Is that part of another heron in the lower left corner?

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    Hi Joseph, lovely comp and pose, and I like the overall detail. Killer BG. Before reading the other comments, I felt you could go darker on the overall image. Here is my version applying a multiply blending mode on your OP, and desaturated the yellows in the BG.
    Last edited by Stu Bowie; 02-09-2015 at 01:44 PM.

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    Terrific image to begin with. Love that pose but Stuart really brought out the colors I was looking for.
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    Thanks everyone for viewing, commenting, and offering suggestions to improve my image. I have taken all your suggestions and worked on the image again implementing them. I thought Stuart's edit really showed how the image could be with the right technique. I used his suggestion of the Multiply blending mode for the image I am posting here. Thanks again for your interest and time, I truly appreciate that.
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