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    I was at the rookery in Gatorland last year in February. I watched a pair of Cormorants building a nest high in a tree. One was bringing sticks and twigs to the other on the nest. The one on the nest would carefully place the sticks/twigs while the other flew off to get another. The one doing the flying must have been going to the same place each time because the time when it would disappear and then appear with a stick was always the same. This image is from a return with the stick struggling to get up to the nest, definitely built for swimming and diving rather than flying. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

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    Nice symmetrical pose. It would have been nice if the upper wing tips were in focus also. Stopping down and bumping the iso would have helped. I find even at iso800, noise on the D500 is managable.

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    NIce. How much of a crop? Where was the AF point in the original capture? Group?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Morris View Post
    NIce. How much of a crop? Where was the AF point in the original capture? Group?

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    Hi Artie, very little crop, I had to add canvas for composition and positioning of the bird. Yes, Group Autofocus. This is the uncropped original. Thank you for viewing and commenting.
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    Pose in fantastic, so kudos on that. I see the focus point was on the chest, but it still looks like the feet and tail are sharpest. I agree it would have been nice to have more DOF across the wings, and I think the image could tolerate a bit more black for contrast. You have caught such a wonderful pose that adding some black won't cost you much feather detail.

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    The pose is nice. Also like that stick. Little tight all around.

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