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    Leroy Laverman
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    Black turnstone foraging along the beach yesterday morning. The light is probably too hard (as is usually the case here in Santa Barbara) but I was wonder what you all thought. Anything I should do differently? I removed a couple of distracting stones/reflections in the background.

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    Axel Hildebrandt
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    I like the pose, angle and soft light. I might go for a slightly tighter crop and increase the contrast as it looks a bit flat on my monitor.

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    I agree with Axel. It may also need a very slight CCW rotation.

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    I echo all of the above but love the low angle and the lovely environmental composition. thanks for sharing.

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    I liked it a lot so I did lots of work on it including removing about a zillion specular highlights...
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    Thanks for the suggestions folks. I'm never sure how much to pump up the contrast. Sometimes I think I go to far so I tried to restrain myself in this one.

    Removing the specular highlights sure makes the light look much softer. Thanks for the edit.

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