Aperture priority
Nikon D200
600 mm
F4
0 EV
Meter center wgt
white balance auto
tripod
Flash none
Morning light
there is a slight flare/halo along the breast. This is present before processing. what causes it and how do I correct or eliminate it? I did not crop the tip of branch over the body. should I?
If crop less on the bottom then part of a leaf shows on the bottom.
Comments suggestion welcome:o
Wouldn't mind having the original for processing, not much I can do with the jpeg Areas around the back have little contrast and the texture of the branch is not right. Would suggest posting over at ETL without work at max size and will give it a go !!
You have quite a lot of details in the bird. The background, however, does not look natural to me. I see some appear to be straight lines and what looks like post-processing marks along the bird and the perch, probably some on the under-side of the tail, too. Did you replace the entire background? On my monitor, somehow the lighting on the bird and the background don't look in harmony with each other. As for the flare, I would try to increase the local contrast to see if it helps.
I agree that the background doesn't look natural. It is too smooth, and the color is strange. Also the bird looks over-sharpened, and there is evidence of PP work on the perch and the black tail, and wing feathers.
If you extracted the bird and perch with a given softwear - the softwear could be the problem for the white fuzz outline. To remove this type of artifact a Wacom pen can be very helpful.
In PS use heavy magnification - clone tool set to 1 pixel, 100% hard. When satified with the results use Filter - Blur - gaussian blur set to .06 or .07 to the whole picture. Next use your sharpening method - by brush to the bird.
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