David, this is an excellent image! Great pose, perfect handling of the whites, tongue exposed, bright eye, sweet perch and that mangled 1/2 fish!
Beautiful!
Excellent image, David. Glad to see you able to post. If you’re up to it a little bit of noise reduction on the background might be appropriate for this one, but it’s not serious.
Most excellent capture. On looking at it, I do see a bit of BG noise. Easy to deal with in photoshop. Select subject, invert, lower the noise. Done deal (you probably already know this procedure but, just case)
A lovely composition! It would benefit from better NR – I don’t know what you use but there are basically one-click solutions that work very well.
The color channels are not well balanced, leading to a flatness and bluish cast. It should be addressed in raw but here’s a one-click curves with Auto checked. It made it a touch too reddish so I went to the red channel and pulled the curve down just a bit in the middle.
It is tagged ProPhoto, which will lead some browsers to display it incorrectly.
