Great Crested Grebe with Fish.

[David Cowling]

This GCG is in winter plumage.

Canon 5D Mk4. Canon 100-400 L Mk2.

1/1250. F8. ISO 4000. Edited in ACR and PS6

[Jonathan Ashton]

Image quality looks a little compromised, was this a large crop? The colours look rather heavy to me, I like the pose, I think worth having another look at the raw - maybe reduce the crop a little. WDYT?

[John Mack]

Nice head turn with a nice view of the fish. Wish for more room below and to the right.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Beautiful subject and neat prey item, good look-back head turn, but I agree the fine detail looks stretched thin, likely due to large crop.

[David Cowling]

Thanks for the comments. Not a large crop, about 75% of original frame remains. It was a very dull day and I probably pushed the contrast and saturation too much in order to get some life into the subject. Could have added some canvas bottom and right to balance the subject better.

[William Dickson]

This is looking good David. I seen it on my laptop earlier, and I thought the IQ was good. Now looking at it on the big screen, I must agree with your self critique, too much contrast/sat...But I reckon if you re processed you would have a very nice image. Good work

Will