In my opinion, the birds, though small, are the focal point here and are lacking in clarity/detail. Too much PP was done in the trees and shoreline, as the colors came out kind of weird, (green & blue) almost looking like it was solarized. Take a look at it again, but view it from somehwat extreme angles on your monitor and you will see what I mean.
While I don't mind a fair amount of post-processing, the background does look a bit over-whelming to me. It's quite splotchy and drawing focus from the birds. That being said, I like the colors a lot.
I know it is over processed It was done in Arcsoft and It was an awful picture to start with I was in fact trying to take an image of a bird up close and it flew away LOL!!!but I liked the formation of the birds so I put a colour reduction and darkened it and played around until I thought it looked good I wish it was clear but the splogdes on the background are how the colour reduction leaves it.
I didnt respond before because I was busy with my family its school holidays here in New Zealand
Thank you for the comments left much appreciated
I used much the same process on this image
