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    During a recent family outing to a local wildlife park I was fortunate to come close to this little Potoroo searching for food under some foliage. Potoroos are rabbit sized marsupials and are considered to be endangered in most of its native habitat. It was late afternoon and the sun just reached under the cover to expose the little critter in dappled shade. Canon 7d2, EF 400 f5.6, ISO 1600, 1/1000, f5.6, handheld. Processed with ACR, CC 2017, all comments and critique welcome. Thanks for looking.

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    I don't like the light here especially the shadow through the right eye. Nice low angle.

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    Agree with John here that the light is a little harsh. Maybe you were looking for that effect though? If not, it's easy enough to brighten those shadow areas and maybe flatten contrast overall. Otherwise, a nice sharp capture of an animal I don't think I've seen before.

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    Hi Gerhard, yes the harsh light and strong shadows have not done you any favours here, however I feel not all is lost here. The ground level POV is perfect and I do like the slight head turn. Good to have a highish SS here and I think you just had enough DoF, going for more would have pushed the ISO which perhaps is not ideal with the 7D unless the exposure is absolutely spot on.

    Gerhard I think if you reduced the Blue, the overall Highlights and began to work with negative exposure (going darker) and selectively work with the light so it tames and even reduces the light in parts of the image, it may start to work and so you are using the negatives as a positive so to speak, WDYT? Obviously with the Raw you can do a lot more and the refinements will be far greater compared to a 256 colour image, but I hope this may help.

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    PS Don't let the nose get lost, retain some light on it.

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    Hi Gerhard - I had never heard of a Potoroo so thanks for introducing me to a new species. Nice low pov and sharpness looks good too. The mixed and harsh light was tough to deal with and the shadows are not ideal. Steve has shown you where you can go with the image. As I said, I don't know anything about this species but the other images I see after Googling it do not seem to have as much orange coloring but perhaps there are variations.

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    Thanks for the improvements Steve, I will have another go at the raw image when time permits. I may have to look at individual colour channels as Rachael correctly pointed out that this species does not have so much orange colouration, they are mostly a drab grey to blend into shadowy undergrowth.

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    I may have to look at individual colour channels as Rachael correctly pointed out that this species does not have so much orange colouration, they are mostly a drab grey to blend into shadowy undergrowth.
    Hi Gerhard, the colour in any RP (unless with the Raw to hand) is very subjective and often we have to second guess at times IMHO. I was more concerned about if there was a way perhaps, to think about how turning more of the negatives into positives, but on reflection, I now wonder if some of the issues may have stemmed from PP and simply became more 'visual' to the eye. Perhaps if you have time, just RP the raw straight from camera, but all when time allows.

    Good luck.

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