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Comment by mgarsteck:
awwww, cute.

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Comment by hotpasta:
nice feathers...bg a little too black and distracting

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Comment by NikonJeb:
I like this a lot in its centered composition. Lovely setting, I think it's extremely hard to get a shot this nice of pure white birds. Very well done....7

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Comment by Ja-9:
I think the mating season is going on down here right now...I need to find out as they are quite interesting to capture when they are in the mating ritual...for me this is just a touch dark in the exposure...you've lost some vital detail IMO (I'm talking more about the leaves rather than the feathers...those are super detailed...good job)

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Comment by CNovack:
Delicately nestled in her nest with her feathers fanned out to catch the light of the sun, she rested. This beautiful white bird really pops visually off of the dark background and that immediately draws my eyes attention to your main subject. While a good photo I think that there is some room to improve it and kick it up a notch or two into the high above average category. The first thing I would recommend is to always wait for the eye or eyes to be very visible in the shot. Whenever the audience can make direct eye contact it greatly increasing visual interest. Second is that the focus on the body of the bird looks soft and is not as sharp. There are things you can do after the shot is taken to improve the detail - unsharp mask, clarify, playing with the brightness/contrast levels or any combination of these three to various degrees. Now it could also be that the original is razor sharp but resizing the photo down in one stop and then sharpening it looses a lot of detail. I learned this tip early on at DPC - with large original sizes, resizing and sharpening the photo down in two or three steps (i.e. 4800x3000 to 2400x1500 sharpen and then resize again down to 960x600 and sharpen) will help preserve the same sharpness and detail that the original shows at full size.

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Comment by RianBotes:
Whites stand out nicely against background but the scene is very busy with branches in background

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Comment by PHOTOKID:
Elegantly beautiful. Love this. 10

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Comment by slimp:
This... is... beautiful

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Comment by nidici:
Lovely shot

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Comment by robm001:
beautiful bird.