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    This image was created in Ithaca, New York on 5/27/18 at 6:19PM. Image adjustments in Lightroom and Photoshop.

    Hand held, Medium crop.

    Canon 5D MarkIV
    Sigma 150-600
    Contemporary
    600mm
    ISO 1250
    f6.3
    1/2000sec

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    I like your placement of the groundhog in the frame and the comp you chose.
    Exposure looks good.
    Colors look good and I like the pop of yellow from the dandelions.
    If this was mine, I would evict the 2 bright OOF stems on the right.
    Shorter grasses in front of the groundhog would have been better but certainly not a deal breaker.
    Gail

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    Hi John, I like the POV and that the subject is looking into the negative space to the RHS. With something like this I think f/5.6 would be better saving little on the ISO, but retaining SS. Overall it's a bit thin, all the adjustments are there for you in LR and the RP is what I've done, nothing in PS. The WB is a little off, I might go cooler based on the mid grey point and then tweak the colour management. You then get a bit more depth in the surround habitat (the grass). Being wet sharpening can look overshare so maybe a tad less here???? Dropping the Exposure a fraction, reducing your Contrast and Blacks again just opens things up, but your call.

    I still think you have set-up in camera that may not be helping carried over from the 5D3, just fire off a raw and happy to look at the configuration in DPP.

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    PS As per Gail's comment the blades of grass HL's have been removed.

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    Always nice to shoot the locals. I like the pose, and the dandelions add a nice touch. Steve's tweaks bring it up a notch.

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    So cute is this Groundhog among the little flowers, well seen and captured John and I really like the POV. Lovely detail on his face and the pose is superb, good HA too. Framing is great.

    You must be quite pleased with this, just a couple more tweaks as per Steve ( I really like the colours in his RP ) and you're good to go.

    Fantastic little chap, wet fur and all. I think our buddy Keith hasn't seen this yet, he would have liked it too

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    Gabriela Plesea

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