
Originally Posted by
Arthur Morris
With all due respect, the whites looked pretty good on my monitor so I saved the image and opened it in Photoshop. Opening the histogram in Levels showed that there were very few overexposed white pixels but that the bill was well overexposed. I reduced the yellow Saturation 13 points and that left only a very few overexposed white pixels. With images like this, converting the RAW a bit darker (and in Combined Mode if you have that as you do in BreezeBrowser) will save all the detail.
I love the look of the image, the big frog, the background colors, the composition, and the crop. The huge problem is that the image is not sharply focused on the frog. When you are using manual focus it is absolutely imperative that you work on a tripod. No matter how hard you try to remain still your body is always moving slightly so focus will be off unless you get lucky (which did not happen here...)
Trust me on the above: always use a tripod if you have to focus manually...
later and love,
artie