Critique Style Requested: Standard
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Description
While out looking for big cats, couldn’t miss the opportunity to photograph this beautiful kingfisher.
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Do you like the composition? Background? Are the limbs a distraction?
Technical Details
1/2500 sec. at f/4.0, ISO 450, 560mm
Nikon Z9, Nikkor Z 400mm f/2.8 TC VR S
DxO, Lightroom Classic, few adjustments to highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, darkened foreground with a linear gradient.
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A wonderful bird, Christine and I like the setting. Overall the image seems rather dark to me and I think the shadows might want to be brought up some more. Not knowing what the bird actually looks like, it just feels a bit off to me. There’s also a lot of banding in the green background. I’ve seen it off an on in images and there always seems to be a problem diagnosing it. I’m making a wild guess that it’s due to too low a quality setting in your jpeg conversion since your file size is only 248 kb. Unless you have a slow internet connection, there’s no need to go under 1 or 2 MB for this site. I’ve set my limit in my LR export at 2MB and after resizing to 2048 on the long side, it’s never approached that limit with highest quality.
I do like the way all those branches curve, so I wouldn’t mess with them, and the kingfisher’s pose is really nice.
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Thank you so much for your comments @Dennis_Plank . I’ll look at brightening. I exported using 60% and 2,000 pixels on the long side. 72 dpi.
Hi Christine
I like the framing and the overall look of this photograph. The nits Dennis has pointed out.
Peter
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