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    I'm a complete newbie to all this and so excited to find this site and become a member. Thank you so much in advance for your comments and critiques!
    Sorry, hit the wrong button, thread title should be Cooper's Hawk but can't figure out how to fix it!
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    Welcome Melissa, First off, thanks a ton for your membership support. Your image looks fairly sharp and the EXP is reasonably good. The wire fence perch is less than ideal :) You did a good job of snapping the shutter when the head was turned back towards you. There seems to be some artifacting in the BKGR especially in the upper left corner. Can you see that?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Morris View Post
    Welcome Melissa, First off, thanks a ton for your membership support. Your image looks fairly sharp and the EXP is reasonably good. The wire fence perch is less than ideal :) You did a good job of snapping the shutter when the head was turned back towards you. There seems to be some artifacting in the BKGR especially in the upper left corner. Can you see that?
    Thank you so much for your comments, Artie, much appreciated. I knew the perch was not ideal, but grabbed the chance. As for the artifacting, I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Do you mean how it looks more saturated in that corner? Or do you see faint spots or noise?
    So appreciative of this wonderful resource, thank you for it. Just started photographing birds this year, and I know I'll learn much from this site (and hoping to take a workshop of yours sometime!)
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    Hi Melissa, welcome to BPN!! You've found the best resource on the internet to help you learn and grow as a bird/nature photographer:)

    I could mention that having moved to your right, if possible, would have given you a better light/head angles and better separation from the OOF FG object in lower left. Then again, if your accipiters are anything like ours there is most often no time to adjust your position and you take them when you can! As is a touch of flash may have helped with the shaded side of the subject.

    Good exposure and good details on the plumage. Good call on the vertical composition. Hoping to see more from you:cool:

    P.S. Fixed the title for you...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daniel Cadieux View Post
    Hi Melissa, welcome to BPN!! You've found the best resource on the internet to help you learn and grow as a bird/nature photographer:)

    I could mention that having moved to your right, if possible, would have given you a better light/head angles and better separation from the OOF FG object in lower left. Then again, if your accipiters are anything like ours there is most often no time to adjust your position and you take them when you can! As is a touch of flash may have helped with the shaded side of the subject.

    Good exposure and good details on the plumage. Good call on the vertical composition. Hoping to see more from you:cool:

    P.S. Fixed the title for you...

    Thanks so much Daniel. Great comments. As for positioning, I shot from my car and backing up would have definitely spooked the bird. But I've already learned so much from this site about the angle importance and will have it always in mind now.
    And thanks for fixing the title!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Melissa Groo View Post
    Thank you so much for your comments, Artie, much appreciated. I knew the perch was not ideal, but grabbed the chance. As for the artifacting, I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Do you mean how it looks more saturated in that corner? Or do you see faint spots or noise?
    So appreciative of this wonderful resource, thank you for it. Just started photographing birds this year, and I know I'll learn much from this site (and hoping to take a workshop of yours sometime!)
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    Hi Melissa, Sorry to be so tardy; been swamped. Artifcating refers to messed up pixels. It is usually easy to see them by tilting the monitor. The crazy thing is that in the light I am working in now I do not see any artifacting :o
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Morris View Post
    Hi Melissa, Sorry to be so tardy; been swamped. Artifcating refers to messed up pixels. It is usually easy to see them by tilting the monitor. The crazy thing is that in the light I am working in now I do not see any artifacting :o
    Thanks Artie, I figured it out by doing some searching on artifacting and finding some previous threads. I appreciate your follow up!

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