Peackock close up - advice please??

[squishy]

aperture priority is good for shots like this.

what camera is it you have? i have a fujifilm bridge (the S9600).

one of the slight downsides of bridges is the worse performence at higher ISO's, i know that i would struggle to get a good quality picture at ISO 800 (though a that level they do still look ok as long as you dont zoom in or crop ).

if you can, use a higher aperture for close up's, like F/8 or F/11.

that is a great capture, none the less!

for editing, i would up the saturation and contrast, and down the brightness, sharpen a bit, maybe down the shadow and up the highlight abit to


(i have probably repeated some of the stuff said above, so sorry about that if i did )

[squishy]

do you mind if i download it and fiddle around to show you what i mean?

[squishy]

here is one i edited. i've only used minimal editing (little fiddle with the histgram levels and colour levels, contrast saturation and shadows) but you can see the difference.