Taken the same morning as I was shooting the Avocets previously posted (about 715am). This handsome fella came at me and flared nicely right in front of the camera.
EDITS:
- I had to take some wing parts from another photo and bring them in with PS sadly as there was a large reed coming into the image. I wonder if it's obvious - hopefully not to the naked eye.
- I made some minor sharpening, contrast, color and tonal edits in LR. Then I brought into PS for bkg and wing edits (cleaned up bkg distractions)
- First try at the smart sharpen. I think I masked the background properly (pulled the bird into new layer) and then smart sharpened at about 170 with 1.1 radius and minor noise reduction. Added a tad of spot sharpen around the eye
- Then resized and re-sharpened at 50 and 0.5 radius per recommendations from Ari in another thread.
Hopefully I got the process right. Okay to sharpen globally (little in LR then more using SS in PS), and another final after resizing?
NOTE - it is a little tightly cropped. Unfortunately the bottom edge is as captured so his right wing came relatively close to the edge. I just executed the ~ 40% crop from the top down instead of adding to canvas in the bottom in PS.
Nikon D500
Sigma 500mm f4
Handheld
ISO 200
f5.6
1/2000







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