Took this in Florida last April.
Dowitchers ( I think short-billed but I am never 100% sure!)
Canon 1DX 600mm
ISO 800 SS 1/2500 F 8.0
Taken around 6:00PM.
PP: Cropped to ~70% FF, processed in DPP4. I increased brightness by .25, increased the shadows by 1 and boosted saturation by .4. Then NR as per Arash's e-book instructions. Off to CS5 for a tweak of levels and DE at 1% to birds only.I cloned out an extra catchlight in the left hand bird.
USM to JPEG
I am not crazy about the way the green in the BG intersects on a diagonal line with the brown and I thought about cloning in some green on the RHS to "level" the merge between the 2 colors. Thoughts?
Comments and critiques are always appreciated and learned from with thanks,
Gail