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Hello Erik Simonic and welcome to the Critique Forum.
That is a beautiful photo of a Bee Eater! Such gorgeous colours! You captured well its beautiful wings in good light! You did a fine job for someone who is new to Bird Photography! I would be very happy to have taken that image!
So here are a few things I would suggest : I don't know if you cropped the image at all but what I would suggest to have a wider frame to give more "breathing space" to the bird.
So I tried that on your image, increasing the canvas and filling in the area with the Fill Selection option in PhotoShop. I then cropped the image in a 5x7 format landscape mode and tilted the image a little so that the branch is in the bottom right corner.
Then I adjusted the details with Nik Color Efex Pro.
I opted for making the sky blue by painting over the white section and then using Gaussian Blur to blend it with the surrounding greens.
I also adjusted the Levels a little bit.
And then I denoised the image with Topaz Denoise AI. BTW, you would have been able to lower the ISO by using a lower shutter speed, like 1/4000 instead of 1/6000.
You could also lighten a little some of the darker green areas. I didn't do it but it is something to consider.
I hope these suggestions are helpful to you.
Best regards,
Lucie, senior critic
All valid points, thanks for the input.
Yes I did crop the image, so I will extend to the more natural crop, and recheck the editing process to be more precise.
