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Comment by e301:
Certainly eye-catching, although I never got to it in the voting. I agree in general about the border - would have been worth a .something on the score I think - though inmy opinion some work to bring out the rest of the landscape would have made it feel less PS'd. Not saying it is PS'd, but it feels like it's been deliberately darkened to isolate the 'mill. More definition (not masses, but enough to see that horizon properly), and even some lightening of the sky toward the horizon would have added to that massive sky feel that is so imperative in communicating the feel of the Broads). Check out some of Tom Mackie's stuff - feature thhis month in Practical Photography of just this territory.

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Comment by Ecce_Signum:
Thanks for the comment Adi, pic was just cropped for composition and resized for the web, no other post editing. When I saw the scene there were 3 birds there, too darn slow in my old age!

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Comment by Jinjit:
Great picture.
The DOF is wonderful and I like the colors and lighting.
Just a little something about the bird's eye look a bit weird.
Was it somehow processed?
I think I would rather see it more black and more round then it is.
Other then that a very nice job.

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Comment by Ecce_Signum:
Thanks for all the comments folks, most I've received and by far my best score. I just wonder how it would have placed if I didn't mess up on the border??

bpickard, thanks for the translation, bablefish did a bad translation for me - yes, it should have been "evening light"

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Comment by suemack:
Congrats on your well deserved 16th place in an incredibly tough competition Andi!! That is so cool!! An awesome image.

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Comment by TooCool:
That's one impressively big border. How much burning did you do on the sky? Just curious. Sorry if I'm wrong...
TC

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Comment by snackwells:
Wonderful. Like how it stands out amid the darkened backdrop. Excellent post processing of the sky. Quite dramatic.

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Comment by AndrewTO:
I love it (10)

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Comment by coolhar:
too much border, pretty dark, perhaps using curves to make it lighter and bring out more detail would have improved this shot, especially in the bottom, non sky part of the background

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Comment by GeneralE:
I agree, really great lighting for this.