Guy Harr
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I have a little area that is pretty secluded and I can get low and close to the water edge. Looking for comments on this image. thanks for looking
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Wood Duck hole
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I quite like it. What camera / lens and how far away were you?
Guy Harr
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Used D500 with an older AI-S 400mm 2.8 with 1.4tc not sure on the distance but fairly close,probably around 20 yards at most, no crop on this. Layed on my belly at water edge.
Welcome to the forum, Guy. Your fortunate to have found a spot to capture the woodies. Good detail and a nice low angle on this shot. With such a light BG it would benefit greatly by lifting shadows selectively on the bird and lowering highlights on the rest of the image. Also applying a vignette would help tame the BG a bit.
Guy Harr
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I didn't change the bird any as I felt it looked like what they should , I did tweak the background some using lowering exposure and increased the dehaze, very slight vignet.
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BAL Land
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I like this much better. More pop to the image.
Welcome to the forum! Kicking down that background makes all the difference, I think. Nice shot!
Guy Harr
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Thanks guys. I manytimes feel I over do the processing so I never know how far to go. Thanks again for the kind critique
Woody Meristem
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To me the second is significantly better.
coachjohn57
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The second image is very good; like you, I am always tend to shy away from over processing only to find that my images can, at times, lack “pop”. I’ve started to work with luminosity masks and am amazed at the difference they can make. Well done with your second attempt!
Guy Harr
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Thank you for the comments and support