Hey Doug, Nice job with the COMP, SH, head angle, and EXP. Beautiful BKGR. The bird looks a bit cut out and pasted, not sure if that is from the flash or from being slightly over-sharpened or from???
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Great find, good eye contact and angle. It looks a bit oversharpened on my monitor. I would also run NR on the BG and there is a slight magenta cast on my monitor.
A superb image in all respects - color, pose, bg, comp, ha are all lovely. The only parts that looks oversharpened are the mantle and wing coverts which have a bit of noise on my screen; if you didn't sharpen I wouldn't know what caused this effect. A bit of NR on the bg would help. Otherwise, a really fine warbler IMHO.
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OK. I think that the image has a slight cut-out look (am I the only one seeing that???) because there is a tad too much flash. With the beamer in place and the flash at -2 1/3 the flash is not able to turn off in time to reach that low level of fill. When working with songbirds at close range you can either remove the Fresnel screen of pull down the diffuser on the flash head. That will give you just a touch of flash...
Not sure if that is in ABP II or from a Bulletin but I know that I have written it before:)
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