Red Billed Leiothrix

[pinakibaidya]

Last Saturday I walked through a less trodden path in Darjeeling and discovered many treasures of nature.This bird is one of them. I am sorry for the distracting background but I like the bird for its' color and beautiful posture. Hope you will like this bird.

[Bobobird]

What a beautiful bird and beautifully captured.

[John 2]

I agree. he background isn't too bad. Just take down the highlights on the leaves. The bird is quite beautiful.

[Panama Hat & Camera]

Pinaki,
In this case, you should forget the background. It is nature and the bird is very beautiful.
Congratulations,
Antonio.

[jprzybyla]

Hello Pinaki, nice image of a beautiful bird. I wish I had it in Florida to photograph. You mentioned the background being distracting, I took the liberty to edit your image to show a way you can overcome that. Here is what I did. I cropped the bird a little tighter with a square crop which eliminates some of the background. Then using Adobe's Lightroom 5 post processing software I used the Radial Filter with an elipse around the bird to darken the background outside of the elipse by 1 stop of exposure. Next I lowered the Clarity on the oustside of the elipse by -50 and moved the Shapening slilder to -60 which added to the blur of the background outside of the elipse. I am posting the image so you can see what I did, if you would rather I didn't I will remove it.

[jamn4ex]

Pinaki your bird shots just keep getting better !

[pinakibaidya]

Hello Pinaki, nice image of a beautiful bird. I wish I had it in Florida to photograph. You mentioned the background being distracting, I took the liberty to edit your image to show a way you can overcome that. Here is what I did. I cropped the bird a little tighter with a square crop which eliminates some of the background. Then using Adobe's Lightroom 5 post processing software I used the Radial Filter with an elipse around the bird to darken the background outside of the elipse by 1 stop of exposure. Next I lowered the Clarity on the oustside of the elipse by -50 and moved the Shapening slilder to -60 which added to the blur of the background outside of the elipse. I am posting the image so you can see what I did, if you would rather I didn't I will remove it.

Thank you Joe for viewing my pic and your valuable advice.I liked your pp version. unfortunately i don't have lightroom. Thats why i cannot follow your advice.I have Adobe Photoshop CS and i find it complicated.I have just done a bit of sharpening,increased saturation and cloned some areas to remove unwanted twigs. If you could tell me a few things about how to do in Photoshop i would be grateful.