gordonpritchard

Thanks to you both. This was a very fun challenge for sure.

I'll be brutal - they're lovely. Good job.

You also have some severe fringing that's robbing sharpness. I tried to see if I could reduce that - but I just don't have the skill:

I think this cutie is a bit under exposed and lacking in contrast. A few tweaks:

I see you edited out the part of my post where  I wrote that we should have the option to prevent shooting when no card is inserted. That being said, maybe you should minimize what is displayed in ...

The a77ii warns you with a color highlighted flashing "NO CARD" in the viewfinder or on the LCD screen. But it would have been a good idea to have a menu option to disable shooting when no card is ...

Photoshop, Photomatix, plus some jiggery pokery. Unfortunately there was camera movement and focus was on the far eye.

Oi! I'm 68 and the 16-300 is my lens (on a 77ii) of choice for 90% of what I shoot. Great combo.

Like so?

That's an old stock photo, so that suggests that you didn't take it. Make a soft edged selection using the pen tool in Photoshop (which you say you have)

The important question is: will you be directing the next Fast and Furious movie? Great stuff!

Sorry, I meant the hue/saturation adjustment. Not Levels.

I just went to Levels in Pshop and adjusted the cyan slider’s hue. No need to mask or make a selection.

What you did wrong was post too many pics. You’ll get more feedback if you just post maybe two.

You don’t need an instagram account to look at his photos - just click on his name in the linked page.

Are you taking the photos? Post a worse case sample so we can see what you're dealing with.

Very nice!

Try the model train clubs, or military model clubs. I'm sure they would love to work with you on this kind of project.

Placed 8^th in the challenge.