gordonpritchard

Taken from about 30 feet away.

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Your shot is a great starting place. I'd crop it, open up bird's dark feathers, desaturate the background green and red in rocks, sharpen the bird and rock it's standing on, blur the background a ...

You could always use a different level of sharpening on a problematic area vs the rest of the image. Left is original.

I use an M2 Air with 24 gigs of RAM and 1 terabyte SSD. Love it.

Placed 18^th in the challenge.

Placed 3^rd in the challenge. In Victoria BC

Not bad for a thirty year old!

Also there are white spots in the background water that might read as errors. I would edit them out. Lovely capture BTW.

Thanks. No I don't. I just try everything (like dodging and burning, duplicate layers set to different blend modes, curves, etc) and see which one or combination helps the best. In this case I ...

Have you tried scaling the distorted section in post?

Duh me. I didn't know that Preview could view layered PSD files in a flattened view. (Been using MACs since '84)

Maybe it's common knowledge but I just discovered that Preview on MAC OS 13.0.1 can open layered PSD images for viewing. Cool.

A bit of photo editing could help distinguish the lighter from the background.

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I don't know. When I went from a and old MacBook Pro to a new MacBook Air I just followed the Mac's setup guide and it transferred everything from the old to the new Mac - no need to re renter and ...

If you still have your original MacBook then backing up with Time Machine and then use that backup to set up your new MacBook should solve your problem.

Sooc it to me!

About what filter you need: https://youtu.be/HpCn6WUy1n0