Hello Nigel,
thank you for your kind critique and the very useful comments you made by stating your preference for "some more background texture retained".
To a very similar shot of the same individual of P. sacerdos I posted a workshop with the original version showing the very busy BG caused by dense vegetation that I felt prompted to "clean" to remove distracting contrasting elements. If your time allows please have a look into:
http://www.treknature.com/gallery/photo71279.htm
and check the workshop I added with some of my considerations for discussion.
As a general rule, I would always prefer to leave a picture as it comes from the camera. If on rare occasions postwork cleaning may be useful or not - and where to stop it - may be discussed here on TN for good reasons.
Thank you!
Best regards,
Peter |
Austria
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