Sandhill Sunset

This sunset photo was taken at Bosque Del Apache.
7D2
Canon 600mm version 2 with 1.4 extender @840mm
1/800, f8.0, ISO 400

Darrell, I can see what you were trying to attempt here but there's a lot of strange stuff going on, color banding, halo around the bird, irregular sun, etc.
It needs clouds or something to make it look natural as it stands right now it looks artificial.

-Tim

Thanks for your input, any of the issues you see due to post-processing problems?

Hi Darrell, color banding could be do to file compression, noise reduction and saturation and the halo from over sharpening.
I hope this helps.

-Tim

Thanks Tim

Hi Darrel I see the problems Tim is speaking about. Post processing is my hardest part too. But I do like the silhouette and what you were trying here.