Morning Tom

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Description

We had a flock of turkeys cruise thru our backyard early this morning and here’s a tom I got with an interesting backlight as he was showing off.

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Overall. I reduced the brightness of that upper right branch some. I Thought I’d leave it in there to kinda keep the balance of that part of the BG. Yeah?

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Z9, 180-600 lens, Nikon 1.4 TC, monopod, 1/1600th, f 9.0, 750mm, ISO 10000, cropped to 6331 x 5021

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Excellent detail and light. I 'm in favor of keeping the greenery on the left. Good foreground/background DOF. We have turkeys in our neighborhood as well and this morning I took an early walk and witnessed about 25 leaving their fir tree roost and flying to the ground-quite a sight to see these large birds in flight.

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Cool backlit image, Dave. Some of the highlights on the edges look a bit hot, but with the backlight they don’t bother me much. I don’t know what evolution was thinking when it put such an ugly head on what is otherwise such a gorgeous bird.

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I really like the lighting in this one Dave. I love this time of year when things get really cold outside.

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Nice catch Dave. I like the rim lighting on the bird with nice details still intact. If it were mine, I’d try removing the greenery on the left and tone down the bottom elements. I could see adding more space on the left if that doesn’t create more problems composition-wise.

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Though backlit, nwell handled
Green LUC is distracting to me - if u agree, try desaturating osme