
Originally Posted by
Tony Whitehead
Lovely portrait, Amos. Love the texture in the plumage. Eye detail and water drop are great. The specular highlights have a magenta hue on my monitor - not sure if this is a digital fringing/chromatic aberration issue or atmospheric from your recent dust storm. Agree with Colin that the area on the neck looks blown. Not in being clipped as you have clearly demonstrated but in not having any detail suggesting that they were overexposed at capture. If I am understanding correctly the histogram was clipped but you removed the clipping by adjusting the output level down from 255 to 250 - my understanding is that making the adjustment to the output levels removes the clipping from the histogram by limiting the maximum brightness to 250 instead of 255 but doesn't recover detail. The area remains blown but just doesn't show as pure white. I may be wrong but that is how I understand it.