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    Griffon vulture in Hoces del Duraton Natural Park, Spain.

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    Fujifilm XH1, 100-400mm, handheld
    f5.6 SS1/4700, ISO 800
    Developed in ACR

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    Hi Tomas,
    Welcome to BPN and Happy New Year!
    What a great looking bird.
    I like the HA (head angle) and the environment he is in.
    There are a few issues with this image.
    The main one is the fact that you did not include the tail in this image or leave enough room at the bottom of the frame for the virtual (hidden) tail.
    The other issue is that there seems to be significant heat shimmer causing a "film-like" appearance to the image. I would add contrast and (if you have lightroom some dehaze).
    I would also lift the shadows a bit more.
    Finally, if not against your ethics I would clone out the bright blade of grass on the right hand corner. If you do not want to clone then I would use the burn tool in photoshop to reduce the brightness.
    Looking forward to seeing more images from you and your part of the world.
    Gail

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    Welcome and Happy New Year from me as well. These birds are great and I saw many of them in Spain when I was there in September. Nice head angle and I like the view of the cliffs in the background. Unfortunately I came back without my images as my gear was stolen shortly after shooting these birds and Lammergeier. Gail has given some excellent advice re the haze and also the extra room for the tail. Also your sun angle was off and the bird is side lit which has caused much of the bird to be in deep shadow. Whenever possible try and have the sun at your back, unless it makes you fall off of that cliff!!!

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    Nice work Tomas, good advice already given above. I tried dodging the shadows on the face, reducing the saturation in the background and removing Gails twig as an idea -

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    Good day,

    Thank you very much with your advices, I will take care with the postprocessing. Iīm a press photographer and normally donīt do a lot of post in my pictures (in daily work I shot jpg). I need to change my mind with this kind of photography.

    Regards.

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    Nice too see something different on here. The pose on the bird is nice. I like the background.

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    Very Nice Image. I like the repost.

    Somehow I feel the image is soft.

    It could use a bit of sharpening.

    TFS

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