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Dusky Moorhen portrait
Taken a couple of days ago at a lake's edge in suburban Canberra of one of our most common waterbirds. Location is next to a popular park where the birds are regularly fed and quite tame so come very close, enabling a close portrait like this. Bird was on the edge of the water here. Crop is about 3/4 of the frame area.
As always, thank you for looking and for any comments you are kind enough to share.
Technical: Canon 80D with EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM Mk II at 400mm handheld. Manual exposure 1/200 sec, f8, ISO 1600. Processed in Canon DPP 4 (digital lens optimiser @ 50, sharpness = 2.5, crop, lighting adjustments, reduced luminance NR) then exported 16 bit TIFF to Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin. Modest NR to bird and stronger NR to background. Bird only sharpened in PSE (Sharpness tool, remove Gaussian Blur, 0.3 pixels at 50%) after final size reduction.
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Excellent close up shot Glenn! The water droplet is adding a lot to this great detailed image.
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Detail looks great. Love that water drop. Maybe just a slight more head turn towards you. Still nice.
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Hello Glenn, what a superb closeup of this dusky moorhen, colors are vibrant and full of detail. The water drop at the end of the bill is certainly the icing on the cake. lovely...
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Fabulous details on the bird Glenn. Lovely BG and yes the water drop adds. Very nice.
Will
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