Before and After Bird !!!

[Alfred Forns]

My second before and after pose ( James still working hard on format coming soon)

Canon IDMk2
500 f 4.0 IS
f 5.6 1/1250
ISO 400
Manual set at 0

The first it the RAW image as it came out of the camera Only reduce size to post

The second image is the worked image with following enhancements

Noise Ninja Added canvas to the front and bottom Use levels curves and added black to neutral/black channel sized and sharpened

[Alfred Forns]

Worked image

[George DeCamp]

Very subtle changes, very effective results!!!

[Rosl Roessner]

Hi Al,
fantastic idea, showing before and after pictures!
You guys make such a good job; thank you for all of your time!

[Terry Eddington]

:D Great example of how to pull out the best of this BIF shot. Thanks for sharing and showing. But come on Al, "Bird"??? :D

[Alfred Forns]

......................... bird it is :) ............. at the time sounded better than avian subject :eek::cool:

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great idea to show before and after versions. The processed file looks great. There is a vertical line on the right side close to the edge, though.

[Martin Dyer]

Al,

Overall a good improvement in composition and presentation

Just a couple of points that are easily dealt with - I am getting some feather cloning shadows on the lower wingtip just behind the wing and there are also some sharpening halos on the top of the upper wing, lower edge of the lower wing and bottom of the leading edge of the tail that aren't there in the original.

but as mentioned these are easily remedied

HTH

Martin