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    This is from 2008.
    It looks ike I go to Carden Alvar every year except this year.
    I's a great place to shoot several species if you go at the right time. (May-June)
    I darkened the perch pretty substantially.
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    Like the alert pose and the perfect head angle. I might move the bird slightly to the left in the frame.
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    Great bird and looks sharp. I do not understand the crop/COMP with all the space behind the bird. Light looks harsh and image too contrasty. I do like the BKGR.
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    Very sharp and I like the way the perch matches the birds coloring. Agree it could use more space in front of the bird.

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    Nice pose and harmonizing colors of perch, Karl. Very nice BG too. Agree on more space on rt.

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    Perfect pose !

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    Hi Karl,
    I love the pose but find the image very contrasty. Great perch and BG. Would put more space to the right of bird.
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    Thanks, Artie.
    I was debating as to which way to move the bird in the frame.
    I was tempting to position it to the left.
    Then I thought that it was looking towards the left, so it should be the negative space.
    Obviously I made the wrong decision.
    I'm wondering if you would prefer this one:
    I reprocessed it.
    Darkened the perch in RAW and in PP again.
    Cropped it and sharpened the bird and perch only
    and applied NR to the background only, although it looked pretty good before.
    Nothing else done.
    Thanks.

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    Karl, I much prefer the image in pane 8. Why do you say that the bird in the OP is looking to the left?
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    Artie,
    I can see it now that it was actually looking at me.
    My mistake, but now it has been corrected thanks to your comment.

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    Alls well that ends well :). With the image in pane 8 you needed to move the bird back in the frame by focusing and then recomposing to the right.
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