A White Stork playing with a feather at the zoo's indoor free flight aviary. Thought I would end up with an "S" from my zoo visit but this was way cooler :-) Very happy with the lighting and detail in this one.
PP - cropped, levels, white balance, cloned some texture onto blown areas, dodged eye/face/feather/bill, increased contrast, 2nd layer (Gaussian blur, dodged bird, merged in multiply mode at 30% transparency), added border, resized, sharpened.
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unique effort with the bird - I was expecting an S or another letter but you did a great job to have the bird create the A - my only critique is the darkness of the end of the bill - it seems as if it was 'burned' a bit in post processing
Back to comment: Well seen! Great sharpness and contrast. The blown highlights are noticeable, but I can't decide whether or it truly hurts this image.
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