This is the next frame following the one sent a few days ago which was too crunchy and I have tried to soften it down bit and done very little except la bit with high lights almost no shadow work as the bird is almost all sunlit and a bit of NR and Sharpening in smart sharpen at .5 in PS .Also lightened the blue early morning sky by quite a bit.about 50% crop as its closer [at 100plus mph!] .So Im hoping that this time it may be nearer the mark! Thanks for previous comments and much needed help.
The blue is still electric.
In PS I went to Image... hue/saturation..blue.. adjusted.
Color may need to be adjusted, I was not there, but this is a better start I think.
Pose very cool!
I would also clean up noise in the sky. ian.jpg