I'm quite the noob at bird photography, was lucky enough to capture this robin...
Not too sure about my post-processing though, any thoughts ? (first one is JPEG straight out of camera, second one is processed from RAW)
all feedback welcome !
European robin
The crop isn't bad, but I think the image is too contrasty by the end.
Thanks for the feedback ! I like a bit of contrast - on of the first things i do most of the time is dial down the shadows - but on this one I dialed up the contrast a bit also... that was actually the thing I was not sure about.
I tweaked it a bit:
I like this version a lot better.
The cropped version is better, but not sure that center crop is the best possible. I would rather got with rule of 3rds (bird in down left corner).
I did experiment with different crops, but with the bird in the bottom left corner, the blurred leaves at the right become too prominent I think ...
I like the illusion of 'aura' that the leaves now create around the bird.