Well captured behavior Eric! As for improvements, I would like to see a bit more room on the left and right and the BG seems noisey. Doing a NR on the BG only would be good.
Eric, Very nice interaction. I agree with more space on the sides and BG noise, I also see some ?cloning artifacts? around the birds and foliage, Not really sure what it is.
Love the pose of both birds, just fantastic. I agree about more room at the left and right but just a bit. The image is a bit cold to my taste and I think that some warming of the colour would be great. I agree that you have some unpleasant jpeg artifact around the beak of both birds (most probably due to selective sharpening and jpeg compression, not from cloning job).
The image is a bit flat to my taste, try to adjust the midtones just a biit
Very nice image ;-)
I too would like to see a bit more space either side, you'll most probably find that the crop on the right has cut-off the tail feathers behind the leaves. Juans repost seems to have cleaned up the image a bit, is this a largish crop? Excellent interaction captured here and good to get both birds in focus, congrats. Also I feel a bit of levels tweaking could bring the image alive.
Thanks everyone for the the nice comments and suggestions.
I like Juan's edit, and there are several ways I can darken the background as well as some of the reflections on the foliage. I'll see how much extra room I have on the crop - this crop was based on trying to keep the subject large in the image but may have been a little too aggressive.
The artifacts are related to sharpening a small image for posting here - no issues on the full size image.
I'll play around with warming it up a bit - particularly the foliage.
I really appreciate the constructive suggestions. I'll update with a new version in a few days.
Great Blue Herons - Electrified
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