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    In this session I focused on flight images of those amazing flyers,
    not an easy task for the 40D ;).
    Taken at Eilat north shore, HH from a boat.
    ~ 92% of the original.
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    I like the angle, eye contact and BG and might add a bit canvas at the top.

    Sooty Shearwaters are amazing flyers, they fly about 65000 km per year: http://www.terranature.org/sootyShearwaterMigration.htm

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    Congrats at getting one, we tried too out of the whaling boat and boy, they fly fast. Nice sharpness and pose, a bit tight on upper right corner. Thanks for sharing it!

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    Wow! You oughta patent that water. It is loverly. Tack sharp on the eye. It's good to see the old "toy lens" still doing some good work :) I i will assume that you did not have any more room above and left....Nice wing position and perfect EXP.
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    ps: I think that Fabs meant the upper right corner.
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    Upper left, sorry :o

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    Gal, Fantastic sharp details on the eye. Tightness noted. Love the water. It's not an easy to create a great image from a moving boat. Congrats!

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    Beautiful Bg and excellent sharpness make this for me. Just a bit tight.

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    Awesome image Gal!! Agree regarding more canvas top left.

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    Nice image, exp and sh look very good, agree with comments above.
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    Nicely done, nice details and I really loved that BG...

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    Very sharp! As mentioned above, a little tight. But nice to fill the frame with a flying bird!
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    Agree about adding canvas but a great shot Gal excellent detail.

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    Not easy to do on the left with the patterns in the waves, at least for me....
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    Hi Gal, great flying posture, and I like the light, detail and sharpness. The bird stands out so well from the blue BG, and adding a little left and top would be easy to do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stuart Bowie View Post
    Hi Gal, great flying posture, and I like the light, detail and sharpness. The bird stands out so well from the blue BG, and adding a little left and top would be easy to do.
    Easy on top, yes. Easy on left: not. Let's see the repost :)
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    how about this?

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    sorry for the water mark have to fix that...
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    Acceptable but nowhere near great (as predicted). :) You have lost much of the wonder in the water on the left side of the bird. Thanks for trying though.

    I do think that if I had seen only the repost I would have had questions...
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    Thank you so very much guys,
    I tried working on that image in the days after I got it. it is hard, I wasn't satisfied with the results.
    The next image is even sharper and better (with more room to the left), but I clipped the very tip of the closer wing... that was even harder to fix...:(

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gal Shon View Post
    Thank you so very much guys, I tried working on that image in the days after I got it. it is hard, I wasn't satisfied with the results. The next image is even sharper and better (with more room to the left), but I clipped the very tip of the closer wing... that was even harder to fix...:(
    Gal, please post a JPEG of the next image in the series here. Thanks.
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    This is FF,
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    Gal, I am confused. Is this the original capture???
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    No, these are two different images / files. two images from the same sequence, one after the other
    The OP was taken a split of a second before the second one I uploaded.

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    Thanks Gal. I should have figured that out as the water is different. In the first post, the whole wingtip was in the frame, correct?
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    In any case, I went away with a repost. I worked on it very carefully as I know that Arash will be inspecting it very carefully :) I think that it may be the answer. The wingtip actually looks a bit better than in the original post where it appears broken off at the end... Used a series of mostly Quick Masks as described in APTATS I.
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    In the first post, the whole wingtip was in the frame, correct?
    Yes, you are correct.
    Thank you very much for your repost, you did a very good job completing the wing.
    it looks realy good, I'll give it a try.

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    looks good Artie, now the only thing that is missing is the far wing being fully up!

    BTW, why do you think I would be inspecting carefully :D ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by arash_hazeghi View Post
    looks good Artie, now the only thing that is missing is the far wing being fully up! BTW, why do you think I would be inspecting carefully :D ?
    Arash, Could not raise the far wing in Photoshop :) See my comments in Pane 18...

    Gal, you are welcome. Still a great image to start with.
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