The IQ has sufferred a bit. Moderate amount of noise, the whites are overexposed and not showing much detail, and it almost looks like some chromatic aberration along the back of the neck.
Could you share with us what you did in post? How big of crop?
Hi, Randy. This is about a 50% crop from the original. In RAW, the hotest tones in the belly measure 245 max. IMO, those belly feathers are so fine and downy, they almost defy detail. I did not run noise reduction on this image.
Even though the whites aren't technically blown at 245, I might go back to the raw and reconvert it with less exposure just to see what the whites do as far as detail. I do agree they are very fine feathers.
You can also run a linear burn on them, or if you have color efex pro, detail extractor can often tease out a bit more detail.
Thanks, Randy. I was growing a bit frustrated with the comments about blown out whites, particularly on the repost, when on my monitor, the image is fantastic!!! Geez, I don't know how I can make it much better! Kinda seems like when the first person registers a crit about an image on this site, everyone else falls in line and hesitates to state a different opinion. Anyway, thanks for your comments.
I appreciate it can be frustrating at times when people don't agree with how you see an image. It has happened to me on my images as well. Although my monitor at work is calibrated, it still reads slightly different than my home monitor, plus I have a controlled viewing environment at home, not so much at work.
As far as people agreeing with the original critique, there can be some of that, but there are a lot of very independent folks here, and most don't hesitate to give their honest opinion, even if it is different from a previous poster.