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Grain and loss of detail. Was this taken with an actual camera or a cell phone?
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It was taken with a Nikon D7100, bur with a big cut of the original frame.
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That explains it then. And as @Nancy OShea mentioned, the crop should have been even tighter, but then you'd really have issues. Unless you can find an incredibly good upscaler, which I don't think exists as this time, I don't think there's much to be done to improve the equality of the image.
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In addition to what @daniellei4510 mentioned, I think the composition could have been framed better. There's too much pond and not enough subject.
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There are some bright white areas that appears to be blown out. A longer lens would have been needed so that you didn't have to crop significantly. Also a lower ISO, as the noise is still evident.