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    Default Greeen Heron in Flight

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    Sony a9ii, 200-600mm, 1.4 TC
    1/3200 at f/9, ISO 5000

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    Action, no-shadow pose, color, composition, and eye contact are all perfect, but it looks like the image quality has taken a significant hit at f/9 and ISO 5000. I'm not a processing expert, but I
    wonder what else can be done to to get more refined and natural looking detail. Apart from a slightly hot throat, that's all that this image lacks.

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    I can see where Dorian is coming from....but, a great looking frame, which I would recommend another go at the processing...so much going for it.

    Will

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    Love the light and shadows in this one. TFS

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    Kurt, good to see a local on here :-)

    So yeah, the overall canvas has a ton of upside. The background is nice and dramatic, light hitting the subject is good.

    The noise is quite pronounced on the subject, which may be expected at ISO 5000 on the a9? Did you manually increase exposure on the subject, it can definitely enhance the noise.

    Maybe take a shot at a round of Denoise, maybe like 15/0 or something and fun final sharpening in PS with USM/SS and see if you like it.

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    You could maybe get better IQ with a lot of work but it looks like it
    was not exposed perfect and you need good exposure with any camera at iso5000.
    Nice Pose and BG.
    Dan Kearl

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    Hi Kurt, great flight pose, and the Heron pops against the darker BG. Overall, nice and sharp, and noise already mentioned.

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    I's love to have a crack at the raw file here. If you are OK with that, shoot me a link via e-mail using a large file sending service.

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