It's Brown Pelican nesting season, so Pelican Rock is overrun with pelicans.
Post processing:
Lightroom -
* crop
* white balance
* darken blown out spots on the bill and neck
* clone sensor dust
Photoshop -
* NeatImage
* clone out a blurry duck or something right behind his neck (checked with SC first)
* sharpen
* soft light layer on the pelican, 50% opacity
* multiply layer on everything else, 23% opacity
* local sharpen on eye and water drop
* resize
* USM 15,30,0, 80% opacity
* smart sharpen, lens blur mode 80%, 0.3px, 80% opacity
* SFW
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Such lovely detail, colours and contrast. I would have cropped out the right side, and made it a "portrait" format, to allow for more detail in the allowed size.
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