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    Puppy Coypu ("Nutria" Italian language)
    Virtually no processing, only converted from Raw.

    Canon EOS-1D Mark II N + Canon 400 f/5.6L
    1/400 di sec. f/6,3 ISO400 free hand

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    Hi Gianluca - Welcome to BPN and the Wildlife Forum! An interesting species to see. Nice low pov. Looks like you had some harsh light. Personally I would try to tame the highlights, especially in the bg a bit more. I also would have liked a bit more dof to have the tip of the nose sharper. Looking forward to seeing more of your wildlife images.

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    Hi Rachel.

    Thanks for your reply and thanks for your suggest

    The nose is not clear why he was sniffing the air and with the shutter speed of 1/400 probably failed to "freeze" the scene well.

    Definitely want to comment on the other wonderful images of "colleagues" ... even with the limitations of my bad English

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    Tough light with a busy BG with lots of hot spots make this a tough challenge. Also it looks to me that you are slightly backfocused. I think you understand that you SS was borderline. Ok as documentation shot.

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    A warm welcome to BPN Wildlife, Gianluca!

    Cute little fellow, your baby Nutria - did you capture him in his natural environment or was he (and his siblings in the BG) in captivity?
    I agree with Rachel, POV works and the framing is good. I am not sure what caused the softness of the muzzle - it could have been the SS, shooting free hand, movement from the subject (nose twitch), or a combination of the above. FP seems to be somewhere between the ear and the eye - can you check/confirm?

    Gianluca, no need to be concerned about language limitations, as long as you give us some basic information about how you captured your images and what you were trying to achieve - it helps us give you feedback:)

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    Hope to see more from you, I see this image was taken in 2006 - have you got some more recent images to share?

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    Robert what does "BG" ?

    Hi Gabriela Plesea but.... no! this image shooting 11/04/2015.
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    The nutrias in Italy very popular in natural ambience (specifically in the rice fields and irrigation channels)

    Gabriela what does "SS" ?

    Yes shooting free hand...
    As I wrote before the nose it was moving, were a group of three small:
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    Hi Gianluca - Here's a list of acronyms commonly used on BPN that might help: http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...8-Acronym-List. BG is background and ss is shutter speed.

    Also please note, I removed your second image. Except if for educational purposes, we only allow one image and reposts of that image in a thread.

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    BG is for Background
    SS is for Shutter Speed

    Thank you for information regarding environment of your subjects, I appreciate it.

    Have a good evening,
    Gabriela Plesea

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    Very very thanks for link!

    Sorry for my error: not repeat in the future

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    Hi Glanluca, and another warm welcome.

    I would look to perhaps crop more off the top to reduce a lot of the highlights in the BKG (BKG - background). If you have Canons own RAW processing software (DPP) then I would open the image up and look to see where the focus point actually was, for me it should be bang on the eye. If you do this then you can easily see where your focus actually was, either behind the eye, or as Dale commented, on the eye but your lens is back focusing which may mean that you may need to send both lens & camera back to Canon for calibration, or if you can, calibrate your kit yourself. I might also try Evaluated metering rather than Spot, it may make a difference?

    When you have time, take a look at the Resources Forum, there are some very useful threads which, if you are just starting out, may help you in journey of Photography.

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