Cool birds. Nice pose on the grass and getting a decent shot at such a limited focal length of such a tiny bird.
Looks like you cloned out a bunch of grass as there is a line of what I think are cloning artifacts along the bottom 20% of frame. Also at about the level of the birds head there are some odd blotchy areas. In addition the grass at the bottom right looks off to me. Like you left some yellow puffy stuff that was cloned out of the rest of pic. You need to go back and clean that all up. Perhaps a heavy round of noise reduction will help blur and even the background. Also you can run a gaussian blur at a low percentage only on the areas you want to blur and see if that works.
In addition the light is a bit harsh and has caused some unfortunate shadows. The tips of some of the grass look too hot to me as well.
You are correct about the odd shades of green in the image, I actually noticed it after posting the image here. Is not that I cloned out stuff, there was very little cloning done to the BG, it is actually that the image was saved as a 8bit and for some reason all the different shades of green looked very messy and very drastically, rather than flowing from shade to shade if that makes sense. When i reworked the image at 16bit it actually don't show like that.
Thanks for your honest opinion, I should had looked it at it better before posting it.
Last edited by Raybel Robles; 03-07-2017 at 10:07 PM.
This a nice shot of the tiny Grassquit. You managed to get him on a perch with a nice background. Isaac's comments notwithstanding. This was one of the many species I wanted to capture when we were there a few years ago, but he was running around in the grass and never gave me a clear look. We managed to see all but two of the island's endemics, but didn't get acceptable shots of all of them.
Yellow-faced Grassquit
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