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    Shot this bittern in late morning light.Canon 5D mark111. Hand held 300/2.8is11,Av5.6 1/1000 2x teleconverter ISO 640. These birds are hard to find blend right in with cattails. Post done in Dpp4 and Photoshop sharpened and a little curves darkened it and added more pop.Comments welcome Thanks.

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    Kevin, nice details but you cropped the legs off. A vertical comp. with the space where the legs would have been would be ideal IMO.
    Also if you can add a little bit more black or contrast to enrich the image. This is a cool find, nice.

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    Thanks Tim This was the best out of about twenty frames cleanest of the head shots without reeds crossing over the front of the bird.So what you are saying when I shot this even though I couldn't see the legs very well still would have been better to include that area even though they sort of disappeared into the vegetation. Thanks again

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    Quote Originally Posted by kevin Hice View Post
    Thanks Tim This was the best out of about twenty frames cleanest of the head shots without reeds crossing over the front of the bird.So what you are saying when I shot this even though I couldn't see the legs very well still would have been better to include that area even though they sort of disappeared into the vegetation. Thanks again
    Yes that's usually the case unless you're doing a portrait type crop.

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    Thanks again Tim I appreciate the suggestions.I have another photo that I will post in a few days and it also does not show the lower part of a prairie chicken and will have you comment or make some suggestions on that for me.

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    Great find Kevin. I agree with Tim, but maybe just darkening to the subject's right would help.

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    Thanks Greg

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