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    Female Redstart...

    What do you think of this composition? Any other comments? - TF


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    Re: Female Redstart...

    Great composition, lighting ect. I really like how you framed the bird with the leaves. Nice shot.
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    Re: Female Redstart...

    It must have been difficult training this bird to model.

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    Re: Female Redstart...

    It works for me!

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    Re: Female Redstart...

    Really great composition OC. LOVE the expression on her face (the little busy-body) and the leaf over her head. Bokah is beautiful on this one and really separates the subject from the background

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    Re: Female Redstart...

    That's a keeper!

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    Re: Female Redstart...

    Print it and sit back and admire. Wonderful shot

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    Re: Female Redstart...

    I like the composition, it looks to me like it might be a bit too red, but I'm on my uncalibrated laptop so might just be that.

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    Re: Female Redstart...

    I like as well.
    Feel Free to edit my photos, However please explain what you did to them.

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    Re: Female Redstart...

    Greg, marist89, jetrim, Phil, Roger - Thank you.

    caleb - Naw, just have to pay union scale.

    Anbesol - Thanks for the 'red' comment. I'll look at it.

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    Re: Female Redstart...

    icicle - Thanks. - TF
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    Re: Female Redstart...

    Composition, great, expression great, exposure almost perfect. The only thing that bothers me a little, is I think the bird is just a little dark. A fill flash adjustment is probably just the ticket here.
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    Re: Female Redstart...

    Second try - A little fake fill flash and got the red out, but is she really sharp enough? - TF


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    Re: Female Redstart...

    It looks sharp enough for me. The eyes are perfectly focused.
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    Re: Female Redstart...

    I think it may be a tad soft - - the eyes could be just a little sharper, but I don't think it detracts from the image. Still a great catch, but I'd probably be saying the same thing to myself, and then my therapist would say, "Phil, not everything needs to be perfect to be good".

    Phil G.

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