Yellow hammer.+repost

Nikon d200
Sigma50-500
1/125@f7.1
iso500
C&C please.
Cloned a little mush at the top of the perch

All works perfectly for me except the small circle top right...cloned out spot?

looks fine to me bar the circle already mentioned.

Dale

lovely looking bird great colour but can see traces of cloning, worth another try

The squarish format does not work for me, otherwise a great shot of one of my bogey birds, except for that round spot!

David

certainly worth another go at the processing, apart from the obvious cloning brush marks TR and around the subjects throat there are 3x other hard circle cloning or dust bunnies in the lower part of the image as well.

Thanks for looking and your comments,is this any better.
Keith

I'm not sure what you've done to version 2, but you've lost some sharpnes and contrast, and introduced a large radius halo around the perch and underparts of the bird. I suspect you've made the cloning changes to the low-res jpg file and you have lost image quality when the jpg has been re-saved. Once you have created and saved a jpg file it is never a good idea to open it and re-save it. You can open it and close it as often as you like without losing image quality but don't re-save the file. If you need to make changes you have to make them on the saved .tif or .psd file and then reconvert to a new jpg if you want to maintain highest quailty in your workflow.

I can also still see two dust-spots in the lower left corner, otherwise, it is an attractive image, although I would prefer space to the right so that the subject is not so central.

Crop works for me but prefer original Keith.

Rgds,

Des

Minor nits aside a very nice image taken in nice light with a beautiful BG.

David

It's a beautiful bird Keith, and the problems are very minor. Like it very much.