I believe it's best to embed your picture in your post, so we don't have to open yet another browser window to see it. Check the following link on how to get the BBCode link for your image from Flickr:
Just paste the "img" part from the BBCode generated by Flickr and your image should be embedded in the forum post.
As for your image, it feels a little underexposed to me, but we should wait for the real forum experts and hear their opinion - I'm new to this forum just like you
Very nice, looks well exposed to me, and I love the red feather detail. It might be ever so slightly over sharpened. Slight halo on beak and a sort of gritty look. Sometimes this is just web stuff.
gneto:
I have a crappy monitor, so I don't really know if it looks good or no to everyone.
she lives in a park with 2 more guys (or girls), but she's free to fly anywhere she wants. Anyway, it's not a wild specimen from the rainforest.
ben egbert:
thank you Ben, I can't really notice what you say due to my fantastic monitor.
AuntiPode:
so nice to take time to adjust my work. Your version looks better, the only thing that catches my eye are top green freathers, look a bit too sharp compared with the rest. Thanks a lot.
One of the advantages of illustrating a suggestion is you can accept as much or as little as you wish, to suit yourself, or in this case, to localize the suggestion/s to taste.
AuntiPode wrote:
One of the advantages of illustrating a suggestion is you can accept as much or as little as you wish, to suit yourself, or in this case, to localize the suggestion/s to taste.
I totally agree with you.
I live off post-processing images, so I canīt reject them nor ignore the benefits, but as a beginner photographer, I try to get the most out of my picture and not rely on heavy post-processing, just to improve my skills.
For this I basically use Photivo to develop my raw pictures, which at this moment doesnīt allow to work with masks, and I only use Gimp for stamping my signature.
But I see most of you guys use Photoshop or Gimp at full power, and how sometimes it can make a huge difference.
