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    Came across this during my work yesterday. Flighty birds so I couldn't get close enough for fine detail in a portrait crop so am trying an environment landscape view.
    Light rain falling so removed a few rain drops plus a couple of bright white patches on the perch.
    R5 RF100-500 @ 500 HH
    ACR PS2022 curves, NR, sharpen 25% crop.

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    Hi Colin, certainly it appears you are moving in the right direction both with camera & PP.

    On first viewing it just doesn't work for me, too much negative space to the right and minimal for the bird to look into, but with the wire perhaps in some strange quirky way it does work, certainly breaks any rules.

    As presented the image looks/appears a bit too 'red/magenta', I might also just rotate the image so the wire is running more horizontal, however I think you are over worrying about detail. Yes, sharpening can be challenging and here is just perceptual as I have said, but a bit more, not too aggressive and easing off on blacks/contrast. I might loose the hint of the grey red in the BKG.

    Just to highlight my thinking Colin.

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    Interesting shot, how about this as an alternative, you also consider removing the wire.

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    Steve, I find an area of neutral (50%) gray in the image and use a curves adjustment layer setting the gray point to that area, which resulted in what was posted.
    As for the crop, I set out to create some ambiguity. I liked the wire and post as part of the cattle grazing landscape of mixed trees and open grassland.
    Oh, and the wire was sloping running to a lower post.

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    Hi Colin, yes I know the old steps, you can achieve a black and white point too, via threshold but you are working on a Tiff, to achieve the correct WB it’s best at the Raw stage and paramount to the basic steps in PP.
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