Early Morning Sentinelby
maxaz1Comment by ericwoo: Hey there from the Critique Club
First of all,
CONGRATS on your new personal best score!! It always excites me to surpass old scores, even just to get a new one on my profile page. Very nice work to beat the strong work you already have there.
Camera Work/Technical: Excellent focus and nice depth of field use, as well as color use, to isolate the subject from the sky background. I see that you were down at ISO 50, but I still think I see some graininess in the sky. Perhaps just a touch of neat image or noise ninja would have cleared that up.
Lighting: Terrific, even lighting gives this one a great warmth and makes it a very appealing image. I see that you added some contrast in your post-processing. I think even a little more would have benefited it. I took the liberty to make some minor adjustments to further illustrate what I am talking about. In the image below, I added a very small curves adjustment and a little bit of neat image, as well as a border (yeah, I am on that side of the never-ending border debate). I'll gladly remove your image if you'd like me too, but here it is.
Composition/Content: Great choice of subjects and well placed to fall nicely into the rule of thirds.
My Opinion: A well-deserved new personal best. With some very minor adjustments, I think this one might have jumped that 6 hurdle. Nice work, and I look forward to more new bests from you.
Thank you for the opportunity to provide a critique on your entry,
Eric 
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