An image from a trip to Costa Rica last year with my father who is an avid birder.
Bananquit
I try to limit my use of content aware fill in photoshop but was wondering If I should clean up the background . Should I brighten the birds face?
Is this a composite?
This is not a composite. 1/1600, f5.6 ISO 4000, 400mm. Topaz denoise AI applied and some cropping.
Cleaning up the background would be beneficial, especially the out of focus in the far right and far left. Looks good for iso-4000. I spent a week+ in Costa Rica almost 2 years ago and shooting conditions are very difficult with respect to light.
Very pretty combination of the bird and the flower. I could see you lightening up the face a bit. Not too much because it looks pretty good as is. I like the thought of cleaning up the left side and Then some on right side. The more oof that is removed I think will only add to the photo. Very nice pose.
Here is a reworked image with face slightly brightened and content aware fill, clone, and patch tool to clean the background. Thanks for the feedback.
Nice image to start with and an excellent job on the reworked version, Bryan.
