NZ Falcon further editing.

This is a picture of a female captive raised New Zealand Falcon taken in October 2006 with a Canon S2IS.
Unfortunately EXIF details long gone.
My editing skills are in their infancy but I would like to know what could be possible to clean up the image including cloning and left foot reconstruction.
Still one of my favourite shots !!!
Thank You: Ian McHenry

Hi Ian

Interesting image. Personally I would rather see more room around the bird to give it some breathing space. It looks uncomfortably tight in the frame. The nice thing is that extending the canvas is easier than cleaning the rest of the image up. Also the overly bright whites in the wings are a little distracting also.

Robert

Finally got round to re-editing this image with some garden cloning.
Ian Mc

PS Robert: Belated thanks.
Still to try "Extending canvas" !!!

Decided to give the extended canvas a try .
Latest edit.
Ian Mc

Ian,

Your results are very artistic looking - like a painting. Nice work.

Thanks Robert
Once again appreciation to all you BPN gurus for speeding up my learning process.
Cheers: Ian Mc