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    No really for critique although have at if you like...
    Enormous crop and quick and dirty PP.
    I watched and shot this grebe eat this fish, it took maybe 5 minutes
    of arranging and swallowing and contorting and it finally went down, although the bird
    floated around looking kind of sick for a bit...
    I have no idea why or how these tiny birds do this?

    600mm, 1/200, f5.6, iso1600

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    What a fish. They low angle is nice. I watched a pie-billed grebe try to swallow a sunfish for about half an hour.

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    Here is my non-critique: this is a fabulous image -- sharp on the eye with a perfect EXP and a huge, huge fish with a nice BKGR. With a great head angle and the head well lit.

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    Thanks a lot Artie, I appreciate it.
    I have about 20 frames as good as this in different swallowing modes, except
    I was a long way away.
    This is 5% at most.. 565 kb file.
    I didn't even have to resize for web the crop is so big!!!
    Dan Kearl

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    Greedy *******! Looks like me at Chinese Buffet!

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    Great action captured. Like the crop.I thought the IQ was a bit off but was not even going to mention it because the head is sharp-just grainy. And then I read your comment and see that this is a 95% crop!!
    That would explain what I am seeing.
    I also see a bit of posterization in the BG, which often occurs with these dark green BG's.
    What is your camera body? I would never even dream of trying a crop of more than 50% with my 1 DX. Pretty impressive IQ for such a huge crop.
    Gail

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