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The background and everything else works here!
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Great photo.
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Works for me. You got him in a clean spot between the "blobs" with some great light and a nice pose. Super clean BGs are necessary with every shot, your BG elements of birds and water provide a nice sense of habitat.
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Beautiful IF capture of this Shoveler, Sidharth! Like the wing details, nice rich browns, and love the bright yellow eye. Well done!
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Nice flight shot and great details.
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Excellent wing position and placement of bird in the frame. IQ is excellent. I do find the dots a bit distracting,
Gail
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Excellent captured and exposed, and lovely detail
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Great flight position, comp, exposure, details. Very nicely captured, but I agree that the brightest of the BG spots are a little bit of a distraction.
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Hi Sid, firstly, you nailed the flight posture capturing the downstroke of the wings. Secondly, you have nailed the sharpness, and I do like the detail and colours on the shoveler. Love that yellow eye. Im all for a mottled BG as captured, but in all honesty, if this were mine, I would blend in the spots. Having said that, the shoveler still pops so well, as it is separated nicely from the BG.
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Sidharth this is one awesome image. +1 with Stu on the BG.
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Thanks a bunch for the feedback folks. I will try to blend in the spots and will repost tonight.
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Nice flight shot with a cool bg.he shovelers colors are great.
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I tried my hand at blending in the spots, but didn't do too well. I tried a few methods with varying results.
In this repost, I used quick mask to paint those spots, created a layer out of the resulting selection in a linear blend mode with an opacity of ~18 and also reduced the brightness on that layer a bit.
Other ideas are welcome. Thanks!
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sweet flight image, you have been nailing these ducks!
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