I am wondering if I have over sharpened. I processed in LR and exported using sharpening for Screen and Standard level.
Anything.
(If backgrounds have been removed, etc. please be honest with your techniques to help others learn)
Photo is cropped vertical to a 4 x 5 with a bit off both top and bottom and sides.
5D4, 700mm, f/6.3, 1/640, ISO 1600.
Hi David, no this doesn’t look oversharpened to me. If it’s not against your ethics, I do think that the stick pointing towards the bird right in front of its beak and also the hay that goes across on the left could be cloned out. I would also consider making it into a square crop as the bottom 1/3 of the habitat doesn’t do much to the image in my opinion.
Thanks Adhika, I am glad to hear it does not look over sharpened. No it is not against my ethics to clone out the stick ( steel drift pin) but I am just trying to include the surrounding environment in my shots. So it is good to get feed back. And thanks for comment about lower third. It was a last minute decision to post this version of the event. I have others with less of the bottom but more of the side.
This is a well composed environmental and behavioral image. Certainly not oversharp. Adhika made some good crop and clone suggestions. I would also remove the one green OOF blade of grass in the foreground to keep all the grasses in focus. You could also throw a mild vignette in to highlight the Plover.
I like this, David. It doesn’t look oversharpened to me-just about right. I do which that stick in front of the bill hadn’t been there, but I don’t find it overly distracting.
Interesting shot, never seen a BB Plover off the ground (except while flying of course 
). Sharpness looks good to me. Nice image overall ! Cheers, Hans
Thanks Everyone for your comments. They are much appreciated. And good catch David on that blade of grass. I had not noticed it.
