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    Been working on photographing these for a while now. I find them a difficult bird to get right, especially with the sharpening, but hopefully this looks ok. Thought this was a different pose to the standard and quite liked it.

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    I like the pose and sharpeness. I also like the water beneath the coot. Though to get the bill and forehead in check..here the highlights are hot, pushing blown. It would be worth recovering those during raw conversion (recovery tool may work well, and/or the highlights slider). The blacks are perfect. Looks like the image may need a degree or so of CW rotation, and you could come in a bit from the left and below. Good job overall Simon!

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    Excellent comments by Daniel, +1 for the CW rotation.

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    Thanks to you both for replying and the tips. I an see the need for CW rotation - missed that one. The bill highlights I tried hard to recover in Lightroom 3 using a selective brush dodge. You're right it is very borderline. I'll revisit that. Thanks again for the constructive comments.

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