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    I went back home to upstate NY. In my traveling i found a small beaver dam and lodge. I was able to get a few shots of a working beaver

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    Robert,

    Great behavior very well captured. Regarding composition, I would center the image for maximizing attention and to avoid green OOF spot on the lower left corner. Some thing similar to this and also bit of noise reduction.
    Let me knwo what you think

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    Hi Robert, not sure how you are viewing things, but the colour doesn't look right. There appears to be a lot of saturated Reds, Magentas & Blues within the image, so some selective adjustments in Saturation, Selective colour would be worth a try, or revisiting the original. I would perhaps also suggest either cropping out the green OOF leaf bottom LHC or cloning it out as it's a bit of a distraction and running some NR on the BKG too.

    When did you calibrated your monitor as that might also be throwing things out as they should be re calibrated every month at least, because they do drift.

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    Sid I think our posts crossed with similar thoughts. Robert this might help, happy to delete if required.
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    Steve,
    Your repost is closer to natural tones compared to original. Very nice job.

    =Sid

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    Thank you i will take a look at my RAw and calibrate the monitor
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    Robert,

    On my monitor I have to say I agree about the Magenta cast, which if carefully played with can be reduced without reducing the blue of the water as Steve's repost has done.

    You can always know that people find images interesting by the amount of reposts done by others.

    Here's mine , I have cropped it aded some canvas for more "swim into" space and done some adjustments in colours, you will get a far better result from the RAW file.

    Every monitor even the same make and model will show colours differently and of course we all percieve colours in different ways.

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    Ken's repost looks good with more natural looking colors.

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    Sid's repost is killer , lovely image
    TFS

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    I'll have to go with Ken's repost.
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