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Lovely portrait Gerald. I love the brightness and details on the neck feathers and the way the bill is tucked in. It makes a nice portrait shot. The body of the swan is a wee bit too bright for my liking, I would have liked to see more feather detail here.
Overall a lovely image and thanks for sharing
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This is quite lovely IMO Gerald... some might feel that the eye is too centered, but I don't know how you could compose this portrait any better... I like it a lot.
On first glance I thought the BG whites were a bit too bright, but after looking at it for awhile... the brighter BG allows the detail in the head and neck feathers to be the focal point of the image and draws my eye where it needs to be. Well done.
My only suggestion is to tone down the whites in the back feathers just a bit to separate them a tad more from the BG.
Super image, very well done and a pleasure to see.
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Great preening pose, you had nice soft light. The exposure is certainly good and accurate, you may want to extract just a tad more detail in the whites. My wish is that his head (eye) was perfectly parallel to the back of the camera
TFS
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Well seen Gerald, I like this one as presented. Well balanced composition, appealing whites on the subject and background. I like that you kept the WB on the cool side of things in this case. Perhaps a touch more saturation for the bill.
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I like it very much as it is. Well exposed and composed image and nice details.
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Hi Gerald, lovely preening pose, and you certainly nailed the exposure and whites. I do like the darker areas in the BG, it gives the image depth. Im fine with the overall placement of the swan. Well captured.
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Thanks for all the kind words and suggestions.
Arash - I think the way the eye is set on these birds, it would be difficult to get the eye parallel and the head. Happily, I do have a few variations, so I'll check through and see if there are any better shots. I'll see if I can get some more detail out of those whites!
Regards, Gerald