Taken this afternoon with Sony A230, Sony 70-400G @400mm, f8, 1/500, iso400. ec +0.7, HH.
PP in elements 5: I worked light, color and sharpness on the bird and perch. BG was extremely busy, I cloned out a few twigs and reeds darkened the Bg lowered its contrast and aded gausian blur to try and and melp the bird and perch stand out.
Hi Peter - Like the look back pose - Bird seems somewhat soft on my screen with a bit of a lack of fine details - did you use NR on the whole image??
Some possible cloning marks under the perch - looks a little funky in area's.
Keep em coming :)
Hi Peter - I agree with Lance and Jackie - the bird does look a bit soft. You can remedy that a bit with some additional sharpening on the just the bird. Was the focus on the bird's eye? It looks to have been a closer to the tail???
Nice job on the bg.
Thank you all for your critiques. I have been told in the past that I over sharpen, so i tried to keep it to a minimum now. This is a large crop and that could be all or part of the cause as well. I will keep plugging along.
Peter
White-breasted Sparrow
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