Well exposed, looks like you were blessed with soft light, good shooting angle too.
Having looked at a few loon pictures over the years, this guy seems a bit too smooth without the fine texture and detail I would expect from a minimal crop like this.
Did you need to run noise reduction on him? Perhaps what I am seeing is just a side effect of the low contrast lighting, and restrained sharpening?
Randy, NR was limited to the BG, none at all on the bird.
The only place I am seeing the "smooth" look that you mention is on the face and the upper part of the neck.
That is actually what drew me to this particular image as I liked the effect which also appears in the RAW file.
I assume that it's the result of the angle at which the light was hitting the face.
Thanks for the follow up. Must have just been the light then. There are areas that look quite sharp, like the bill and pupil, but the white areas on the back aren't showing the usual striations and detail I would expect. Some of that may be the falling off of DOF.
A good lesson in how much of what we perceive as detail comes from the lighting.
Common Loon
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