Highland Elaenia

This is the image before I applied the threashold layer.

Jefferson,
Great look at this well captured Elarnia, nice pose, excellent details and sweet lighting. I prefer the original image which to me looks the more natural of the two. The feathers do not have as good of detail and the chest whites are blown in the second (posted) version from what I am seeing on my monitors. Hope this helps,
Well done . . .

Nice work in post on this image Jefferson, you corrected the color cast well. Excellent shot of this Elaenia, you managed to get pretty much the entire bird in the open with terrific detail, a nice head turn, and a clean background.

Hi Jefferson:

I like the image. Nice pose and sharpness. I see you used the threshold layer concept I referred to in Bill Berry's Woodpecker. Using that is a great way to remove color casts if the image has a black and a white. One important piece is to set the default values for the white eyedropper and the black eyedropper. Out of the box those values at 255,255,255 for white and 0,0,0 for black. Those values need to be changed for best results. I'd be happy to write up and article on the entire process if there's enough interest. It isn't complicated, just setting it up once and they executing it... Let me know (Jefferson and others)??

The posted image is probably the more correct, but some further correction of the whites to bring out the detail on the chest is needed. The original, I have to admit, is more eye pleasing, probably due to the warmer colors.

Thanks everyone.
I prefer the colors of the posted image (the one with post processing with threadshod layer), although I agree the chest is not that good.

Keith, I would read for sure an article if you decide to write it!

Thanks guys!

I like this a lot! If it were mine I would tend toward cloning out that vertical stick on the left. It feels distracting to me and is confining to the main subject. Your first one does look better than the second, as far as the processing goes.

Hi Jefferson. Not being familiar with the bird, I'm not sure which is the more accurate rendition. Keith is right about backing off on the endpoints for the threshold adjustments. I think it would be useful to have such an article in the handy archives. I've run across one somewhere in the past, but I'd have a tough time finding it again. Do watch out that you don't pick the wrong white point. Where you have a catchlight, that's usually a good choice.

Nice pose and excellent detail.