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Beautiful light and great focus on the eye, John. Would love to see a bit more DOF to get more of the beak and neck in focus. Closing down
to get that extra DOF is something I often forget to do in the moment, especially on headshots!
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Hi John,
Nice detail on the eye. That is one long bill... Nice BG. More DOF to get more of the bill sharp would have been beneficial.
Allen
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I like for the sharpness and the sweet light and the near bird that is likely one year old. I disagree respectfully with both Allen and Dorian because if you went to a smaller aperture you would destroy the soft background ...
with love, artie
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I too like to stop down for close up portraits, but only when I have a smooth and rather uniform BG for the reason Artie states. The subject is very nice, but I really love the grasses in lower right corner - they ad lots here.
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I should have mentioned above that the problem with stopping down for this image is that the background is relatively close ... I will stop down for head portraits with distant or plain backgrounds.
with love, artie
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