Hi all, I'd be very grateful for views on lighting adjustments for this shot. Problem is the dark head against dark background. But I need the dark background to contrast with the white of the bird. With thanks in advance.
Capture details: Canon 80D with EF 100-400 MkII at 400mm handheld. Manual exposure 1/800 sec, f7.1, ISO 800. Processed in Canon DPP 4 (digital lens optimiser, crop, lighting adjustments, default NR) then exported 16 bit TIFF to Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin. Very light NR applied to bird and stronger NR to background. I've lightened shadows on the background and bird's head but may not have gone far enough? Sharpened (Sharpness tool) after final size reduction. Bird is an Australian White Ibis photographed at Lake Curalo, Eden NSW in dawn light
Difficult lighting...
