An average pic at best but it's the first Waxwing of the year for me. Kinda early as they usually don't arive up here til mid January.
We talk a lot about photo editing or manipulation in wildlife photography. Personally I try to do as little as possible but once in a while I find that I have an image I really like with maybe one major flaw in it in my opinion. The following is an example of this and is about the limit to how far I will go in photo-editing.
The first shot shows the bird with a severe shadow across its face. I took this series and realised right away I did not like it so tried to move around for a better angle to eliminate it. Although the bird cooperated the shadow did not so I was stuck with it. The best I could do was to get it to cast just behind the eye instead of in front of it and on the beak.
The second and third shot show what a little editing can do. For this I used only Lightroom and its spot removal, heal/clone brush. It only took a minute or so and although Photoshop would have made a quicker job of it I wanted to show Lightroom is fully capable of making these minor edits with little effort.
As mentioned above, I try to keep this type of editing to a minimum but every so often it is unavoidable.
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