Intimate Wild Caracara

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I was in Florida recently with just my 800mm lensa and had to make the best of what I had with me. Took a few close ups or what i call Intimate Wild

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1 - What do you think of my grouping - Intimate Wild ?

2 - anything pertinent, including crop, exposure etc

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Standard - paying attention exposing the bird correctly - a challenge with the whites and blacks

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I like your choice of a name for this kind of images, Karl. It’s quite appropriate. This is a beautiful image and it looks like you found a very well groomed subject for it. Very well done.

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Karl, that is close up of this beautiful bird. Wonderful details. Well done.

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Thanks @Dennis_Plank , @Sandy_Richards-Brown and @Shirley_Freeman

I certainly agree with Sandy on those highlights - working on those - trying not to clone/ AI

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Karl: Beautiful bird and a marvelous portrait. I especially like the look of the eye. On an administrative note, I notice that you are posting a lot of full size images. It’s not a requirement but site suggested guidelines are to post images 2000 pixels on the long side. When you post a full size image it gets downsized by the site and you may lose some detail plus you make the image a more inviting target for image thieves. Considering the excellent quality of your work that might be a concern.

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Beautiful portrait and taming down some of the highlights would achieve perfection. Beautiful bird that deserves a close-up…Jim

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Thank you Bill

My images are 1500 x 1050 , 800 KB limit - have u tried to download any image and confirm that I am doing something wrong ?

I reposted a " Elusive Grey Ghost - n2000 x 2000 ( limit 1500KB ) as suggested by Diane Miller - could you please check that repost for me ?

Thanks

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Thanks @Jim_Zablotny

The reworked highlights works better - the challenge was not to use AI - did just fine without!

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Karl: Here’s a screenshot of this image when I opened it in PS

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There are different ways to resize images. My processing is a combination of LRC and PS. I do most of my global adjustments on the full size image in LRC and then edit in PS. I never figured out how to export directly from LRC and may be too old a dog to learn new tricks. It’s my understanding that the site will resize the files to <3 MB but leave the dimensions unchanged. I use the Save For Web feature in PS to stay under the 3 MB limit. With regard to your other post it does look good. You can see the size of the image when you pass your cursor over the image.

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Thanks again @Bill_Fach - I dont know what happened - I have to go back and export another image 2000x2000 / 1.5MB restriction and then open it in PS the way you did