Red wattled lapwing

[prasanna av]

ISO 800, 1/1600, f8, -0.3.
Cropped for compo, Sharpened with NR to BG.
Background is natural, Shot ground level using a tripod.

[arash_hazeghi]

Hi Prasanna,
nice BG and pose, the IQ is poor however, I am not sure what happend, it looks as if the image has been heavily compressed. it is only 30KB.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Yes, nice pose and BG but I also agree with Arash about the IQ of the image.

[Frank Schauf]

Excellent light, details and bg.

[prasanna av]

I'm having problems in compressing the image. My output Image from Photoshop is 754 kb. please let me know what I can do.

[Karl Egressy]

I'm sorry to say but it appears that the image is soft. Otherwise it would be a nice image indeed.

[PhilCook]

Lovely light and backdrop, head turn is nice too....a lot going for this image....but it's sadly quite soft.

If your output in PS is only 754kb then maybe the image is cropped quite heavily ?

[Arthur Morris]

What size is your optimized file??? I think that the image is in sharp focus but that the detail is lacking for some reason. Did you use any NIK? Was it originally under-exposed?

[arash_hazeghi]

Nah! it cannot be 745KB, BPN does not allow that. the image above is 30KB.

here is what happens, if the files is more than 250KB BPN sever will compress it to 30KB which results in poor quality like above.

you have to use "save for web" in photoshop using "optimized" and make sure it stays below 250KB but not less than 200KB.


hope this helps

[prasanna av]

Hi all, Reposting this image .
Thanks a lot Arash.

[MohsenVahedipour]

Now It looks much better that OP. Excellent details, contrast & colors in comparison with OP.

[arash_hazeghi]

repost fixed the issue