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Lots of action here, and it really shows how long the Skimmers' wings are. Good job on the wingtip repair. I like the great splash. Something's missing for me; it may be the eye, and perhaps you sensed it when you tried to bring it out of the black head. I wonder if a catchlight would help?
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Yep, you did a very good job repairing the wingtip and adding canvas above. The skimmer is still rather tight in the frame though. Seems like you cropped a good portion out, from your description...do you have more canvas below available? I do like the action, with a good splash behind and water drops all around the running pose.
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Hi Alex, the repost looks great. lLoose crop is the way to go I think. I think there is not much details in the black including the head and wings. Did you check the histogram? Loi
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Alex, often a manufactured catchlight can look artificial and make things worse instead of better, in which case you're better off without it. I wish I had a magic tip for making it look right. The repost looks better to me.
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I like the action you captured here Alex. The repost looks is an improvement especially for the eye.
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Great action capture. Hard to add a good catchlight when we can barely see the eye... To me it looks as if the sharpest focus is beyond the bird's head as the wings and the feet look a lot sharper than the face ...
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Bill and Jim, thank you for the comments and glad the repost looks better.
Loi, thank you for your comment -- I'll try to bring out some more detail in the blacks when I'm back (traveling at the moment).
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Arthur Morris
Great action capture. Hard to add a good catchlight when we can barely see the eye... To me it looks as if the sharpest focus is beyond the bird's head as the wings and the feet look a lot sharper than the face ...
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ps: where did you make the image?
Hi Arthur, thank you -- I enjoy reading your blog! I've played with the eye and I'm not sure how much can be done on that. I will check the RAW file when I'm back on a proper display, but I'm pretty sure at 1:1 the head / eye was the focus point / sharper than the body plane and wings. I will check again though. Also more than happy to ping the RAW file as well in the meantime.
This image was made in Captiva, Florida, and I'll probably post a couple more from the trip as well.
Thank you all again for the comments!