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    This image was created at Fort De Soto on 4/21/17 at 6:21PM. Image adjustments in Lightroom and Photoshop.

    Hand held, Full frame.

    Canon 5D MarkIII
    Sigma 150-600 Contemporary
    600mm
    ISO 400
    f5.6
    1/1500sec

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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 ...

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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.

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