black necked stilt

[Phil Seu]

Nikon, d300, 300/2.8 + 2.0 TC, 1/640 @ f/8.0, ISO 320, fill -2.0. Northern California.

Approx. 10% crop on right side.

Phil

[Maxis Gamez]

Very nice light and low angle. The exposure looks good. Very nice!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great angle, light and exposure. There is a slight S/H halo around the head.

[Jim Poor]

Well done. Nice color and exposure and the water looks great.

[Robert Amoruso]

Phil,

You did well with the exposure and positioning of the bird here. The image lacks "pop" as it is too low in contrast. In my repost I did a local contrast enhancement using USM at 30-60-0. That caused some whites to overexposure but if you increase the contrast during your post-processing on a tiff and not as I have done to the JPG you can avoid that. Either a more aggressive s-curve or using the method I did.

[Phil Seu]

Thanks Robert.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

I prefer Roberts reposting, but you did a great job in the first place.

[Arthur Morris]

Love the sharpness and COMP in the ORIG. Robert's fix was an improvement but I believe that the soft look was from too much SH/H or an underexposed ORIG that was otherwise lightened.... If the former, the solution is to increase the midtone contrast in SH/H to about 8-12 after making the SH ADJ.