It's mostly rubber duckies and dancing swans for me lately
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I always find it difficult to find the right balance for such beautiful but unilaterally bright and single-shade subjects, balancing the exposure of the body with the neck and head is difficult because it's so easy to blow up one over the other and separately edit exposure in post is difficult to not overstep and make it obvious that brushes were used. It is one of the very few subjects/situations where I found that the DR can be greater than even a good Sony sensor can muster (without very careful consideration).
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So I've been looking for more interesting aspects of a swan, isolating details and getting to know them better, like their beautiful feathers.
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Or their very dinosaur-looking feet, so many scales and quite sharp nails.
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And their feet are so wide it's difficult to get them entirely in focus.
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They always look so cute to me when the water drips off them, someone forgot to close the water tap again
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I wish I didn't cut the tip of the tail off because I love this composition and picture so much, I would definitely love a print of it (one day when I can afford it again).
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The red spot on the neck is a bit of blood from getting bitten by the father of this young one (still not fully mature yet, still has shades of grey on the feathers).
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A tighter crop on the image that I like but next in the burst stack that has a few water drops.
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It's so nice to have a place I can reliably (and easily) go to for a few pictures, helps with my mood swings and depression episodes, just need to look to find the King Fishers that live here.