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    I am not entirely at home with the processing at the moment but I thought this looked half decent. Here they are courting, I can p3redict when the weed dance is going to happen and I do have the weed dance though, the position of the birds is not ideal, I will be going back tomorrow to see if I can get better. Anyway let me know what you think - does it need a little more contrast perhaps?? All suggestions welcome.

    Focal Length : 420.0mm
    Focal length in 35 mm film : 841.0mm
    Exposure mode : Manual exposure
    ISO: 640
    Exposure compensation : 0.0 EV
    Shutter : 1/2500 sec
    Aperture : F5.6

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    Only on the laptop Jon, so maybe take with a pinch of salt, but it does look a little flat to me.

    Compositionally I'm fine with it, it shows the start of the dance, be really good if yo ucanget a fully raised weed shot. Something I've never managed.

    Mike

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike Poole View Post
    Only on the laptop Jon, so maybe take with a pinch of salt, but it does look a little flat to me.

    Compositionally I'm fine with it, it shows the start of the dance, be really good if yo ucanget a fully raised weed shot. Something I've never managed.

    Mike
    Thanks Mike, here's another of the series, still not quite there I feel, the light was constantly changing so to be perfectly honest I am not certain about colours and contrast, maybe better luck today, the light should be better and more consistent and if so I will go for f8.
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    Hi Jon ... lovely behavior shot and action captured .
    Agree with Mike that the image looks a bit flat and needs a bit more life , IMHO .
    TFS Andreas

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    More contrast and saturation would help a lot here, but such fun interaction you got.

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