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    Hi David, beautiful bird, nice soft light. I love everything about the image except the square crop. My suggestion would be a different crop, a 3x2 with the bird placed off center. I get the feeling this was cropped from a vertical with the bird centered. Thank you for sharing.
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    Very nice. Detail in the whites looks great. Like the pose and the light. Agree a different crop might suit this better.

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    Really fine focus and exposure on this David. I agree with the idea of a rectangular crop---I think the leftward lean of the neck, the spike of feathers stabbing leftward and the line of bubbles all support such a crop.

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    Apologies for being contrary here. Something seems to have gone wrong, maybe in PP because there are strange patches where definition has been lost. I don't know enough to categorize these but they don't look right, they just look hot. Overall the image looks washed out and a levels inspection suggests this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colin Driscoll View Post
    Apologies for being contrary here. Something seems to have gone wrong, maybe in PP because there are strange patches where definition has been lost. I don't know enough to categorize these but they don't look right, they just look hot. Overall the image looks washed out and a levels inspection suggests this.
    Hi Colin,
    No need to apologize, especially since you're correct. The raw file came out of camera exposed to the right with a handful of small areas where the low sun bounced off the water ripples very close to overexposed. There were only a couple pixels completely blown out. Sometimes I go cross-eyed looking at all the variations of light grey to white and I pulled the slider too far to whiteness then tried to overcompensate for the hot areas. I really need to learn and use linear burn for said areas. As far as the composition, I have no more on the right. I was tracking with the large area focus on this one (in horizontal) when this beauty jumped to our left. As I moved with him, I overshot but still caught him with the edge of the focus area. Thus he was to the right of the frame. Thanks for the help as it is always appreciated.
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    David

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    I am fine with the boxy crop here with perhaps a bit more room on the right (if he had it). The WHITEs in Pane 6 are greyed pout ...

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