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Beautiful, Mike! Very sharp and the light is very beautiful. Maybe a touch of too much sharpening? I am thinking since the reflection is not shown perfectly, maybe it's beneficial to crop more? Even if you want to include the reflection, I can see this a little tighter. What do you think? I will also try to level the image using the water ripple as a reference.
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Thank you Adhika
I had noticed the excessive sharpening when I first uploaded it and tweaked the image while you were posting. It look better now. I see what you mean about the cropping.
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Hi Mike,
A very nice pose with the wingspan, but it looks bright and a bit thin to me. I may have gone a little too far with the RP depending upon how the light was on the day, but I'd be thinking of something along these lines -
I also gave the BG a little more NR
Is this down at Roman Lakes? Not been for a visit this year.
Mike
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Well captured Mike, always wanted this pose from a GCG. Lovely detail you got and Mikes repost makes the bird 'pop' more. The reflection adds.
Will
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Mike - thanks for your suggestions and repost. The original is actually a bit darker than your post and has an almost painterly feed and I maybe I took it too far in bringing it back up.
This was at Etherow at the far end of the main lake. The grebes at Roman Lakes have a clutch of 4 that are quite developed - almost as large as the adults but still have the black and white stripes (and damned vocal!)
Steve - Thank you for your comments. I got quite a few of the shakes and the wings stretched from different angles and count myself lucky it did all this in such a restricted part of the lake because they normally move away from people when they come to the bank.
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Great action and nice symmetrical wing position.What a beautiful bird.
The OP definitely needs some NR in the BG and some pop.
Mike P's repost addresses all my issues.
I am OK with the reflection- could you have gotten lower?
gail
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Nice image with a cool looking pose. Looks like ISO 4000 was right at the edge because there is still a fair amount of noise in the image. The repost has added more dimension to the shot so I like it. Well captured in what looks like tough lighting conditions.
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