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    Sea otters spend almost all their time in the water, but occasionally they come out onto land. I saw this one on a recent, heavily overcast morning at Moss Landing, California.

    Canon 50D
    Canon 100-400mm lens at 400mm
    1/200, f/5.6, ISO 640

    Processed in Lightroom and Photoshop.

    Thanks for any comments or criticisms.

    Bill

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    Nice eye contact Bill. If possible I would lie on the sand here to minimize the foreground and background in the photo. Also the contrast appears a bit flat, pulling up the midtone brightness in curves will do the trick. Using fill flash may have helped in the field.

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    Thanks for the comments. I've reworked the image to show more environment, lightened the otter, and reduced blue.

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    Nice job on the repost Bill.

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    Bill -great repost. Never saw an otter on the beach.

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    repost much better though I would still chop a little more of the foreground. Great face on this guy!

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