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    Default African Darter

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    awesome light, pose and details
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    Sweet light and nice sharpness. I might remove the white wash on the perch.
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    Lovely action captured here with tremendous light and BG and nice composition. For print, I would remove the white on the perch.
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    Stunning image. Love the pose and the perch, but the lighting is excellent. Well done.

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    Hey Bud, you shouldnt be posting these - it will make you heart sore missing Mankwe. Great pose, and well done with the exposure. Enough space to look into, and I like the complimentary BG. Thanks for your mail.

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    Yes Dumay , great light and complimentary BG. Like the wing detail and pose. Nice image overall.

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    Beautiful composition. Simple yet powerful. Love the 3 brown colors (background, neck and branch) well separated. Nice pose!

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    Lovely image and the take off pose is great. I find the saturation a little too much here which has subsequently burnt out some areas on the neck and wings. Also could do with a little more sharpness. But this is just my take, what you have produced in still great, take a look at my repost and let me know what you think?

    Reduced global saturation by 10 and smart sharpen 22% (has improved burning but not totally)

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    I really like the take-off pose and the sepia look to the colours. I think the added sharpness in the repost looks a bit better.

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    Super great color scheme and a great take off pose as well. I don't find a problem with hte saturation but I do like the repost for the extra sharpening. I think it helped the image pop a bit.

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    A great pose and composition Dumay... Like the warm pastel background colors, bird pops beautifully.
    Repost shows improvement with detail on the blacks.

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