Originally Posted by
Isaac Grant
Just for fun I messed with your image which is super hard to do with this small file. Reduced the magenta and blues, ran detail extractor on the bird, NR on bird and background and sharpened the bird and then the face again. And obviously coarsely removed the distracting elements in the shot. Of course this is a drastic change but an incoming Great Gray deserves some additional work in ways that other species do not. Not an every day shot and perhaps not in your ethical standards, but just giving another option...