Post Processing: I did slight adjustments to white balance and exposure in RAW processing and added saturation and vibrancy. Then I increased the contrast using Curves and created 2 vignettes around the bird, one larger and one smaller. Then I increased the saturation of just the birds slightly. Resize, USM, Save for web.
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Nice detail on this. Busy branches like this are hard to get looking right. When I do such a scene, they just look cluttered. The birds stand out nicely, and the whole thing just works together for me.
Weird , I have the feeling that when I look at the image, the pair seems to be selectively touched up & it shows. If I am right, then the post processing needs some more work
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