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    I waited a long time to find the waters of Lake Morton this flat calm. Image captured at Lake Morton, Lakeland, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

    Nikon D7000
    Nikon 70-300mm F/4.5-5.6 VR AF-S ED shot at 300mm (450mm FFE)
    1/800 F/8 Matrix Metering -1 EV AWB
    Post processed in Lightroom 6 and Photoshop Elements 10, dodging and burning to the birds feathers
    Cropped for composition and presentation
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    Hi Joe, Nice exposure, reflection, and wake in front of the bird. I am of the impression that the pano crop has created a bit much empty water to the right. Roughly in the middle of that right half of the shot, there is a dust spot that can be cloned out.

    TFS-Ross

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    Thank you for viewing and commenting, Russ. Your eyes are better than mine, I missed that dust spot. I have removed it. Thanks again, great to have another set of eyes.
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    Hi Joe, please send us some of that Florida light of yours or else must get on a jet plane.White bird nicely exposed in what looks like fairly strong light,all crisp clear with a nice reflection, very nice.

    Afraid I failed to find the dust spot pointed out by Ross,must get these old eyes of mine looked at.

    Keith.

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    Hi Joe, clean & simple and the exposure looks spot on again, very nice controls of the B&W's.

    Joe, LR makes it simple to spot 'Dust bunnies', if you don't know how then just let me know.

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    Great pose and beautiful whites! I'd agree to removing some from the right -- this sort of pose is hard to decide how to crop.

    If anyone else doesn't know how to spot the spots, check my Lightroom Tutorial, Part 2, the Develop Module. (Link to tutorial page below my signature.)

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    Thanks everyone for viewing and commenting. Very much appreciated...

    Steve and Diane, I use the Spot Removal Tool in Lightroom. I just missed this one.
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    Nice flat water and excellent pose, Joe. The light was a little too strong.

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