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Nice landing pose and beautiful colourful background, Miguel. I like the composition.
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nice landing pose, it looks a bit bright and washed out on my screen. under wings show some noise
I like the BG and dynamic pose
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I noticed that I have a tendency to keep my images a bit bright. Not sure why! I'll try Stuarts usual recipe of a multiply layer at a low opacity. Thanks for looking!
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Hi Miguel, I like the incoming pose with the dangling legs and pointed toes, and against a great OOF BG. Even though you have replaced the feet ( great job on that ) I would still add more canvas to the bottom - more room to land into. I agree there is noise visible on the underwings, and toning down the overall image should work. 
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Nice incoming pose of this Ibis Miguel. I have noticed, as you mentioned, that some of your posts have a washed out look to them as Arash also mentioned. Obviously something in your workflow or how it looks on your monitor.
I shoot a small JPEG along with the RAW. I use the JEPG to reference the colors and contrast seen. I figure that Nikon and Canon spend millions on R&D to perfect there color reproduction so I use that as a baseline. You probably already know that but I thought I would throw it out there.
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Thanks for taking a look and commenting. I must agree that lately I haven't been very happy with the final shot. I've also noticed that the last three that I have posted are of dark birds in harsh light. When I start to process I always try to remove the effect of the harsh light, which in turn makes them look flat. I'll have to work on this a bit.
Glad I'm able to get such honest and great feedback on here!
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If you're processing in LR or ACR and toning down contrast with the shadows and highlghts sliders (or the analogous but not as good adjustments in earlier versions), try adding some Clarity to restore midtone contrast, and often a little saturation or vibrance may be needed also.
Harsh light is difficult to improve but it's amazing what we can do these days.
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Diane, that's a great tip on using the clarity slider! Never thought of it before. I normally use the shadows and highlights, but don't go beyond that in LR. I then head to photoshop and do the rest.
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It's always best to do as much as you can in the RAW converter -- you have the most tonal overhead there. Often that's all you need. Don't neglect the correction for Chromatic Aberration -- I rarely need Lens Correction on a wildlife shot but CA correction can be a huge improvement. I do it in my import preset, on every image. And always have a look at the white balance and HSL section for color work. (Assuming LR or ACR here, but other converts will have the equivalents.)
And when you go to PS, best to always send it in 16 bits. In many cases it's not critical, but if you go for any significant tonal adjustments, you have a lot more levels before you hit posterization.
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Diane, thanks for the tips. I do my conversion in LR and send it to PS as a 16-bit TIFF file. I'll work a little more with LR to get the most out of each file.
What settings do you use to reduce CA?
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Lens Corrections panel, Color tab, just check Remove Chromatic Aberration. I love it when things are that simple!
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