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    A few weeks ago, a litter of Bobcats was born in the Green Cay Wetlands of south Florida. These critters are very shy and elusive. I was lucky to find one passing through a clearing at sundown the other day and was able to get a few images. Here is one.
    Olympus E-30, Sigma 50-500mm Bigma lens, hand held. ISO 800, 1/400, f/6.2, 246mm.

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    Hi Milt.
    A nice 'record' shot of a very rare sighting. As a stand-alone photograph I think there are some areas for improvement, though I love the pose.
    The overall fine detail looks muddy and even blurry - as if your SS wasn't enough (it might be due to a HUGE crop??)
    There's some noise showing up all over the image - possible also due to overcropping...
    It can do with some space all around with a tad more to the RHS.
    It seems to suffer from an over-application of shadow/highlight recovery and there's some blue showing up in the whites.

    Do you mind posting a straight-out-of-camera JPG so we can compare it to your post?

    I'm sure you will enjoy the thrill of this for a long time. Looking forward to more from your travels!
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    Morkel, many thanks for your remarks. For some reason I cannot retrieve the original of the above image but here is the next shot in the series. The posted image was edited in Picasa3. It was cropped, auto contrast, fill light, and the vegetation in the right foreground was cloned out.

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    Duplicate post deleted.
    Last edited by Milt Berko; 04-24-2012 at 10:56 AM.

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    I postd an OOC JPEG image of the Bobcat the other day. Don't know if you saw it. Would like some C&C if possible. Many thanks.

    --Milt

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    Quote Originally Posted by Milt Berko View Post
    I postd an OOC JPEG image of the Bobcat the other day. Don't know if you saw it. Would like some C&C if possible. Many thanks.

    --Milt
    Sorry for not getting back to this one yet, Milt. Lots to do and so little time!

    Thanks for sharing your OOC shot. Here's what I would do with it. You'll notice I didn't crop too tight even with the OOF green foliage, and I didn't overcompensate on shadow recovery.
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    Morkel, thanks for your C&C. Much appreciated.

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    Nice sighting and you did well to grab an image (5 sightings for me, only once with a camera). I like Morkel's work with the repost, a little more space and a bit more natural looking. I find it easy to overdo the processing on shots I'm excited about. Often force myself to back down on adjustements and take a look at it later.

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    Morkel, I took the image you worked on and worked on it to try to get the approximate effecr you made. I also cloned out the OOF green leaves. Here is my effort.

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    Image quality looks better than on your initial post/image - but contrast is way too high on this one...and your cloning work is evident (did you try using the "content aware fill" option in Photoshop?)
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