Purple Gallinule

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image at Circle B Bar Reserve in Polk County, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 500mm PF + Nikon 1.4 III Teleconverter, Handheld
1/2000 F/8 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 720 Auto 1 WB, image captured at 700mm (1050mm 35mm Equivalent)
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2022 and Topaz Photo AI
Canvas added right side and bottom then cropped for composition and presentation

[Jonathan Ashton]

Lovely shot Joe but I an not convinced the subject is in ideal focus.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Lovely shot Joe but I an not convinced the subject is in ideal focus.

Hi Jon, thank you for viewing and commenting. I am trying to understand your comment that you are not convinced the subject is in ideal focus. Would you explain what you mean. Thanks again...

[Jonathan Ashton]

Hi Jon, thank you for viewing and commenting. I am trying to understand your comment that you are not convinced the subject is in ideal focus. Would you explain what you mean. Thanks again...

Joe, the eye and surrounding area does not look sharp/critically focused to me.

[Dorian Anderson]

Love these birds. They're tough to get in flight, so nice job on that. I do agree with Jonathan than the face isn't in critical focus. The whole bird looks the slightest bit smeared. It's minor, but it could be do to focus issue or the slightly slow shutter. I'd want 1/3200 for something like this.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Joe ... very cool photograph with nice colors .
But it lacks sharpness , so I am with the others on that front ?? Maybe a too large crop with a loss of IQ ??!!

TFS Andreas

[Joseph Przybyla]

Jon, Dorian and Andreas, thank you for viewing and commenting. I revisited the image processing and converting the raw/master using my normal workflow. This time using Topaz Denoise AI to remove the noise then back into Lightroom to sharpen using deconvuluted sharpening. I think it is better and sharper. WDYT?

P.S. In the previous image posted I had used Topaz to sharpen the image.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Jon, Dorian and Andreas, thank you for viewing and commenting. I revisited the image processing and converting the raw/master using my normal workflow. This time using Topaz Denoise AI to remove the noise then back into Lightroom to sharpen using deconvuluted sharpening. I think it is better and sharper. WDYT?

P.S. In the previous image posted I had used Topaz to sharpen the image.

Looks way better , IMHO .

[Jonathan Ashton]

I agree also Joe - repost is better by far.