Taken on a bright overcast morning, I used fill flash to lighten the dark parts.
Parts of the perch quick-masked. Noise-reduction in BG.
Comments and critique appreciated.
On my Mac the image looks undersaturated in Firefox, it is however
OK on Preview and PS. Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated.
Nice little Tree Swallow. Not the best perch, but they do like those man-made nest boxes :-) I'm sure you wanted to minimize that perch, but I'm still missing the room below for the tail. The OOF area on the perch in LLC looks odd? An additional round of USM would not hurt either as the eye is a little on the soft side. As for saturation, it looks "OK-ish" , but from my work monitor I can't tell if you posted this in sRGB or not...posting in RGB can affect saturation and colour representation on some web browsers, therefore always best to convert to sRGB before posting.
I like the eye contact and BG. Adding to Daniel's comments, I could see this as a vertical crop and would increase saturation and/or contrast. You forgot to convert to sRGB, which makes it look flat.
Thank you for the comments, appreciated...
How do you make sure it is sRGB? In my CS3 PS settings it states
it is sRGB. I'm not sure I understand what is going on?
Ilija, I've loaded your image in Photoshop and it is indeed in RGB. The fastest way to tell is by the title...it will be written (RGB/8*) next to the title for 8 bit images and (RGB/16*) for 16 bit images. The important part is the asterix...as soon as you see one you know it is in RGB. sRGB would be written (RGB/8) or (RGB/16) without an asterix. To convert you would do the following: Edit>Convert to Profile, and from the drop down menu choose "sRGB IEC61966-2.1" and hit OK. You should see the asterix disappear. You can create an action for this too.
If you use RAW you may have your default options set to convert your images as RGB. Nothing wrong with that, but you must remember to covert to sRGB before saving your web-sized version.
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