Good focus, good detail. Did you pump contrast and saturation by any chance? I can see halos around some parts of the Hover. Oops, I just noticed you stacked this from 2 shots. Did you stack manually, or using software like CombineZM etc? Pretty good effort for a stack, it's not easy to do, even if LordV makes it look easy. Perhaps what I'm seeing is where you've cloned some problem areas. Lighting is a little bit harsh, what are you using for diffusion? What flash are you using, and also camera?
Yea stacked from two images. I have noticed that the eye detail mid way down is not in focus, a pity.
Also regarding post process I tend to use a slight s-curve within curves to make the image pop out, saturation is probably a result of exporting with slight clarity, vibrance and sauration increases from within PS RAW, tend to always pump it a little.
Diffusion is using a setup like Lord Vs but this shot was early morning and had the flash output set to -1/3 I think. The position of the flash diffusion "box" was to the right of the lens but quite close to the subject, not sure if the distance of the flash makes a difference.
good composition, agree on the light.
its best to slightly underexpose all the time and correct in raw
have you tried the "recovery" slider, reduces the highlights quite well.
phil
