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    I made this image in St. George UT, Tonaquint Nature Center.

    I was photographing ducks ( Hooded Mergansers and Ring necked duck ) on the deck. This little coot came walking on the deck. People feed ducks here regularly and hence they walked very close to me.

    I got down on to my Flat on my belly to get better background and used my Nikon 300 f/4 lens on D850 to capture this.

    Most of the time he was facing away from the camera. I could only press the shutter once when he turned towards me. No time to compose and increase my depth of field etc.

    I do wish for a better composition.



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    NIKON D850, Nikon AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/4E PF ED VR + 1.4x TCIII at 420 mm
    1/200 sec; f/5.6; ISO 2000
    Manual; Matrix metering

    Cropped right of the image to make it close to square crop. Lot of negative space towards the left.
    Cropping in D850 is a pleasure.... The more I use it the more I love it.

    Raw Processing in C1P
    Color cast Removed in Photoshop
    Nik 30-30 Filter at reduced opacity
    Neat Image for Noise Reduction.

    Hope you like it. Let me know your thoughts and comments.

    Thanks
    Krishna
    Last edited by Krishna Prasad kotti; 01-03-2019 at 04:19 PM.

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    Nice close up of this coot. Very hard to keep details in the blacks and also have natural looking bill that is not over exposed. I would add a few points of black in selective color to the blacks to deepen the color of the bird a bit.

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    The details look good and i like that red eye. You were close to this coot.

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    I like the details, eye clarity, clean BG, exposure and sharp were it needs to be. Very well done Krishna.

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    I like everything but the dirty beak

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    The head and perfectly exposed beak are very well shown.
    I am not sure about the crop and would make this a 4 x6 and come up from the bottom a bit.
    Gail

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    Thank you all for the comments.

    Here is a repost.

    Crop 4x6
    Selective Color - Added couple of points to blacks.

    Let me know what you think of this one.

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    Hi Krishna, lovely leaning pose, and focus spot on where it counts. Being so close, I doubt you would have achieved much more DOF. Love the colours of the BG. Your repost improves your image.

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