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I like the pose and the background very much. But to me the whole image is way too dark. I would lift the exposure about 3/4 of a stop. I would also lift the shadows as well. I would apply some noise reduction to the background as it is much grainier than I would expect for ISO 400 on a 1dx. Also the bird could use some extra sharpening.
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Beautiful spread wing pose and eye contact. I also like the blurred reeds at the bottom. Agree with Isaac that it looks grainy/noisy given ISO 400 on DX and that it needs to e brightened a bit.
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Love the eye contact and wing position. some points already covered above re noise and brightness. I would sharpen the head more. I think re processing can significantly improve this file
TFS
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This is very nice - I LOVE LOVE the blurry gold reeds at the bottom of the frame.
When I first looked at it, I did not think the image was dark but once pointed out I think a very slight increase in brightness or exposure would help.
Very nice incoming wing position.
If I had one wish it would be that the wings did not intersect with the horizon line, but that is a minor point.
Looking forward to your reprocessed image- it will look great,
Gail
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Thanks for the feedback everyone! Didn’t realize it until I looked at it with a fresh set of eyes this morning but yeah it’s super dark. I played around with the exposure a bit and bumped it up by 3/4 of a stop and now it looks much better. I’m going to work on sharpening and noise reduction when I get home and I’ll probably revise my crop per Arthur’s suggestion.
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Agree with the frame being to dark. The head on pose is nice and i like the two toned background.
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It looks much better.
I would run noise reduction in photoshop CC by selecting the background only and then run some NR at 8. I just bought Neat Image for noise reduction and it works very well and is very easy to master. However, PS CC will do the job well.
The increase in exposure look good. Sharpening looks good as well,
Gail
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Yeah I want to look into getting NI and Arthur/Ari’s guide on that and DPP, Lightroom applies some default sharpening that I think is increasing noise off the bat. I’ll give that a go tonight though in PS, thanks!
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A night and day difference between your 2 versions, nicely done
Mike
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Anthony Barsotti
Yeah I want to look into getting NI and Arthur/Ari’s guide on that and DPP, Lightroom applies some default sharpening that I think is increasing noise off the bat. I’ll give that a go tonight though in PS, thanks!
YAW Tony. Glad to help. Here are the two links:]
The Post Processing Guides are here.
The DPP 4 RAW Conversion Guide is here.
with love, artie
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Very nice incoming pose with hint of habitat. Good comments above. Repost a definate improvement, once you remove the light streak.