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    Default Stripes...Female Ring-necked Duck

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    I captured this image at Lake Morton in Lakeland, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

    Nikon D500
    Nikon 500mm PF, camera and lens supported by a Oben carbon fiber monopod with a Wimberly MonoGimbal head
    1/2000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV +1 ISO 800 Auto 1 WB, image captured at 500mm (750mm 35mm Equivalent)
    Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2022 and Topaz Denoise AI
    Cropped for composition and presentation

    P.S. Learn more about Lake Morton in the BAA Middle Florida Photography Site Guide that Artie and I co-authored. It is available at this link https://birdsasart-shop.com/the-baa-...ic-site-guide/
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    IQ looks great, lots of good details. Body and head angle pretty much perfect. The subject is high in the frame, and looks like there may be some CCW rotation (not much).

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    Hi Joe ... another very nice shot in terms of IQ , I do personally think the sharpness does look as good as the first woodie , way better than the second woodie .
    I do love the stripes in the water , the overall tone and color combos .
    I am 50/50 about the clone work ... to be honest I am not 100% .

    TFS Andreas

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andreas Liedmann View Post
    I am 50/50 about the clone work ... to be honest I am not 100% .

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    Hi Andreas, thank you for viewing, commenting and critiquing the image. A request, when you comment as shown would you be more specific (where in the image). I think I know what you are commenting on but not sure. Thanks again...
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    A super image, for me the duck is just a little high in the frame. The IQ of the duck is excellent.
    I don't know if I refer to what Andreas commented upon but there seems to be some irregularities on the first dark stripe around dead centre and on the second and just below the second dark stripe on the right hand side.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joseph Przybyla View Post
    Hi Andreas, thank you for viewing, commenting and critiquing the image. A request, when you comment as shown would you be more specific (where in the image). I think I know what you are commenting on but not sure. Thanks again...
    Hi Joe ... you should know what you have done to your images , but you asked and here you go ... signs of cloning , repairing or replacing pixels . not even needed to pixel peep it jumped straight into my eyes
    If I recall correctly the BPN rules , we are asked to declare such edits in our intro ... to avoid any misunderstanding when commenting .
    The green arrows showing the parts I am referring to in my comment .

    cheers Andreas

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andreas Liedmann View Post
    Hi Joe ... you should know what you have done to your images , but you asked and here you go ... signs of cloning , repairing or replacing pixels . not even needed to pixel peep it jumped straight into my eyes
    If I recall correctly the BPN rules , we are asked to declare such edits in our intro ... to avoid any misunderstanding when commenting .
    The green arrows showing the parts I am referring to in my comment .

    cheers Andreas
    Hi Andreas, thank you for responding. You are correct, I truly forgot I had done that much cloning until looking at the original image again. There was a double reflection that I did not like. Nice to have your eyes supporting mine. Thank you for your patience, here is a posting to show what I did.
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