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    Jan Fourie
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    Taken at Knysna,Western Cape,South Africa

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    Jan,

    These are beauties, nice to see one on a more normal perch, these birds with long tails certainly do not make it easy. The light looks a little harsh, can you post your EXIF details?

    I might consider cleaning up whatever it is below the bill.

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    The comp suits the pose and long tail, although placed a tad central, I would take a bit off the right. I would maybe tone the perch down a tad, and run another round of NR on the BG.

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    Spectacular bird. I agree with Stu on running NR on the BG, and I too would like to read your metadata.

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    Hi Jan, the bird looks pretty good to me, sharp, catchlight, lots of detail and well exposed. Also like the green BG. I would perhaps darken the branch slightly, and maybe give a little more space on each side of the bird just to see how it looks as i find the very long vertical crop a bit unusual to look at though I understand why you did it..

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    Hi Jan,

    I've never seen one of these......looks like a huge hummingbird; very beautiful. Good job on the composition and helpful suggestions above. The image has a little more contrast than I like, probably because of harsh light. Thanks for sharing a new species with me.

    DB

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    These African Birds with long flowing tails make me want to go there even more...lovely bird, head turn, tail open and lovely background...TFS

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    Exif Data:
    ISO 800
    F/5.6
    Lens : Canon 300mm f2.8+1.4 converter
    SS 1/3200

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    Beautiful image ,Jan , with pleasing comp,HA and bg.

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    Awesome bird and BG (which needs a bit of NR). The pose is perfect and I love the perch. I like the idea of darkening said perch, and if you have it I would add back some canvad at left as I find the main trunk of the perch rather close to the edge and would like to see more of the forking-out part. Great stuff!

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    Hi Jan, good image of this species, good HA and I like the way the tail feathers have spread, well captured. I agree with Danny re the contrast being a little strong and would tone down the bright perch a little.

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    Lovely HA ,perch, and the BG

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