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    Peter Farrell
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    Default Cedar Waxwing

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    Taken in Newport News, VA this morning, partly cloudy skies. Sony A700, 70-400G, f5.6, 1/1000, iso400, on tripod. PP in PSE8, cloned out some oof branches, cropped, contrast and saturation boost, sharpen, lightened area around eye.
    With thier natually soft feathers it's a challenge to get good fine feather detail on this species.

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    The pose is really nice here, exposure looks good. I think even though you might not pick up the fine feather details as you've pointed out, you could though run a few passes over the bird to sharpen the eye a tad.

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    I like the minimalist look and agree that a contrast mask on the bird would likely help.
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