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    Barrow, Alaska. In the middle of the night! We've changed day and night rhythm because of the better light conditions. I went on my belly to get this shot wich resulted in a soaking wet coat. Female bird.
    It's not super sharp, after this trip I had to adjust front/back focussing. But still like the whole setting.

    No cropping, ISO 400 - SS 1/800 - F5.6
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    Love the use of the surroundings to accentuate the face. Self critique pretty much nailed it for me. TFS

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    Light was nice. Also like the framing as well.

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    It looks quite sharp to me. I love the light, the bird, the concept, and the framing. If it were mine I would eliminate the grass that sticks up out of the body. I even lovee the grey and blue stuff lower right as it adds a bit of mystery.

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    Without the one grass that bugged me.

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    I like the habitat but the details look quite coarse and crunchy from here, lot of halos. doesn't make it for me I am afraid it's a pity because everything else was perfect
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Morris View Post
    Without the one grass that bugged me.

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    Hello Arthur, thanks for your post. It should have been better if there were two blades of grass in front of the bird That would provide a little more "balance" because to the left there is also more grass. Maybe it does not create "the perfect picture", but it is nature. And when I don't like the situation, I just don't make the image or I'll throw it away afterwards. I admit that it looks a little better like this, but in this situation it just don't anoyes me enough!!
    It is not very easy to remove this grass because of the structure in the feathers/plumage. You did it with Photoshop???
    According sharpness, it was just a tiny little bit of. Therefore I was a bit more aggresive with sharpening. I agree with your statement with the darkish area on the right lower part. It add's some mystery to the image, but of course this is how the situation turned out to be. I was only able to make a few images and then the bird was gone.
    Cropping is not my favourite way of editing. I'll always try to accomplish an as good as possible image in the field concerning composition. It's a bit old fashioned, but it gives me more satisfaction when I "create" the image outside!! You know what I'll mean I suppose??

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    Quote Originally Posted by arash_hazeghi View Post
    I like the habitat but the details look quite coarse and crunchy from here, lot of halos. doesn't make it for me I am afraid it's a pity because everything else was perfect
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    I was probably a little to aggresive with sharpening??

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    Nice low angle of shoot and use of out of focus surrounding habitat,great light and every thing works for me other than the slight lack of sharpness.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jan van Holten View Post
    Hello Arthur, thanks for your post. It should have been better if there were two blades of grass in front of the bird That would provide a little more "balance" because to the left there is also more grass. Maybe it does not create "the perfect picture", but it is nature. And when I don't like the situation, I just don't make the image or I'll throw it away afterwards. I admit that it looks a little better like this, but in this situation it just don't anoyes me enough!!
    It is not very easy to remove this grass because of the structure in the feathers/plumage. You did it with Photoshop???
    According sharpness, it was just a tiny little bit off (sic). Therefore I was a bit more aggresive with sharpening. I agree with your statement with the darkish area on the right lower part. It add's some mystery to the image, but of course this is how the situation turned out to be. I was only able to make a few images and then the bird was gone.
    Cropping is not my favourite way of editing. I'll always try to accomplish an as good as possible image in the field concerning composition. It's a bit old fashioned, but it gives me more satisfaction when I "create" the image outside!! You know what I'll mean I suppose??

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    Hi Jon, Thanks for responding. It was actually easy to lose that blade of grass because of the o-o-f grasses between you and parts of the bird. But, you can even do it with very sharp background feathers. I use a technique called Divide and Conquer which uses the Clone Stamp Tool and the Patch Tool or Content-Aware Fill. This technique is detailed in Digital Basics II.

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