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    Default Southern Masked Weaver

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    Taken at Pilanesburg Nature Reserve Mankwe Hide. The blue BG is water.

    Canon 7D
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    Matrix metering
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    MRAW processed in CS4

    Crit please as I want to improve

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    I really like how the light angle has created so much definition in the feathers. Incredibly sharp shot.

    One suggestion is to reduce the blue sat a bit. The other is to leave a little more room all around.

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    Good-looking bird, the eye color is striking. Sharpness and look-back pose work well, too. If the sun would have been behind you, the bird would have been more evenly lit.

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    Thank you for taking the time to look and comment. Did you mean desat the blue channel on the bird? Axel I could only move further left in the hide, no more space to move right:( Would a flash have worked in this situation to evenly light the bird?
    Last edited by Dumay de Boulle; 06-07-2010 at 03:28 PM.

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    Dumay, no, I meant reducing the color sat of the water a bit.

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    Is this better Kaustubh?

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    sorry, didnt upload with my last post

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    I like it better. With the OP, I thought the blue was a little overpowering. But lot of these things are personal taste. nothing right or wrong. Only you can tell what the accurate water color was :-)

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