Common Moorhen

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I am still in the Wakodahatchee Wetlands and enjoying all the new birds. Oct 20, 8:24 AM Thank you for stopping by.
Peter

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Canon R5, Canon 100-500mm, f7.1, 500mm, -2EV, 1/1600, ISO 640. I used control line to control the highlights in the water and cropped these photographs by around 30% in DXO PhotoLab 8.

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Very nice, Peter. You’re getting superb detail in these birds. I prefer the side view just a bit, but they’re both very good.

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Hi Dennis
Thank youth comment. It’s nice to get agway and photograph different birds. FL photography is completely different from photographing bird in New England. For one thing, birds are not afraid of people. I have seen people walk with in a couple of feet of a bird perch on the handrail and that just didn’t move.
Peter

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Really nice Peter. Love the swimming pose and the ripply water looks great. Details look better to me in the first image. I could see cropping in a bit from the left in the first image. Great to see these birds well captured like this. Nice work.

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Both nice looks at the bird, Peter. I’d go with the first one as it’s swimming at the viewer and seems to imply more action and it does seem to have a bit better detail . Glad you’re enjoying Florida; one of these days I need to get there myself.

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Hi Allen
Here is a repost with the first shot cropped in from the left and the second shot with the shadows down 5 units and Clear View up 5 units.
Thank you for your insight.
Peter

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Peter - really nice looks at these moorhens. They may be very common, but still are quite pretty. Florida birds are very acclimated to people, especially in area like Wakodahatchee.
Excellent detail and poses in both images.

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These are both good looks at these birds Peter. I really like the water and you’ve done a really good job getting the colors and details right.

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Thank you ED for your kind words.
Peter