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adrianodjComment by LalliSig: Greetings from the critique club :)
Well first off, congrats on your new personal best score, for now at least! I am kindof impressed you got a pretty respectable "wildlife" shot with a p&s camera. However, these photos always come out better if they are taken with a camera with a bigger sensor, like DSLR and a pretty long lens. Why? I feel the biggest fault with this image is the fact that the Owl pretty much totally blends in with the backround and a DSLR and long lens with a big aperture would have solved that problem by just taking the backround totally out of focus.
I basically 100% agree with stevenov and digifotojo´s comments. I do like the desaturated look and use it often and the eyes look pretty cool so I would just say that you need a better camera/lens if you are going to focus on this type of photography in the future :)
I also feel that the even lighting of the shot kindof makes my eyes wander towards the edges of the shot, I think this photo would have benefited with either some slightly increased vignetting or a frame or possibly both.
Other than that, a pretty decent shot but there are just too many bird photos already here at DPC that if you want to do them and score well, you both need perfect technically photos (bird in focus, backround out of focus) and preferrably something extraordinary going on in the shot, don´t know what that could be but preferrably the Owl doing something interesting, not just sitting there.
Kind regards from Iceland, Lárus.
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