Originally Posted by
Steve Kaluski
Morning Jon, I do like the content & framing, the Great Tit IMHO gave you a nice head turn too.
I know light isn't on our side currently, but I do find it a bit 'sooty' and I'm not referring to Contrast, more that they image has a slight masking to my eye, concealing the colours. Now I know you like to 'fiddle' as you put it in our conversations, however, I do think you are perhaps missing something, but without knowing the WF on this it's hard to say, albeit I might have on negative on one slider? Now I see you have paid attention to the legs in terms of values, but to me the yellow is carrying a red 'hue' (and not not related to the slider) and also please don't say you made a grab for the Vibrancy slider...:S3: I think you had a bit more to the right on that Histogram.
The DoF looks bang on, but agree that as this is a set-up the end of the perch is not great, as any set-up in it's own words should be perfect, with no distracting elements, the ideal perch, distance and DoF.
I just wonder Jon, a hint of opening up the shadows a fraction, using an Channel Curve, lightening the image (NOT via exposure) and addressing the yellows may help? Just some thoughts if you are bolstering the folder for the RPS dinosaurs. :bg3:
Hope you have more success today.
TFS
Steve