Very good pose. Is this a big crop? The BG needs a round of selective noise reduction and noise is very obvious in the darke wing tips (I think it is due to some kind of shadows/highlight filetr because there is an halo around the left wing) and I miss some contrast in the image. In my repost I cleaned the noise in th BG, the haloes around the wing tips (using the stamp clone tool), and toned down the Bg a bit. hope this helps
Here is a simple truck that is really helpfull to allow us to see what our naked eye can´t see in a processed image. Once you have done the job jus create an adjustment layer (brightness/contrast), play with the sliders and see whats happen...
In the file attached, I used this simple trick with your original image and with my repost togethers. As you can see it is very easy to see differences in noise, halos, cloning marks and many more things (I used the following values...brightness -39 and contrast +85). :)
Loverly flight pose and wonderful work and suggestions by Juan as usual. (Thank you sir!)
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