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Hi Landofsmile! Thanks for drop by and commenting on this Oriental Dwarf (aka Black-backed Kingfisher) picture. No, I wouldn't feel that it's a rude inquiry, in fact it's a valid question to clarify. I'm happy to reply but not sure if I'm correctly replying your question..
Attached is the original jpeg picture of the oriental dwarf from my camera. I think each of everyone, we do have our own preset setting before taking any picture, be it landscapes, portraits or in wildlife photography. I always try to preset my preference colour setting, and the setting will stay on for quite a while when I'm satisfy with the output.
I'm now mostly 100% into Wildlife photography. I'm using a Pentax crop-sensor dslr (picture #1 to #94 are taken with Pentax K-S1 "voted the ugliest dslr in 2014 ;p ", pic #95 on wards are with Pentax K70) with the Sigma 150-500mm HSM. Below are some of my post-processing steps (with PS4):
1). Cropping, usually 40% to 50% from the original picture.
2). Curves, level and exposure adjustment, if the object turn out to be soft, will try to apply about 10-20% of the smart sharpen.
3). I'm using Nik Dfine 2 to reduce noise if shooting at high ISO.
4). Most of my birding pictures are shot in jpeg, I will try to set it into both jpeg+raw only when shooting at the extreme poor lights condition (editing raw to have a brightness picture). As I noticed the jpeg output from the camera are more or less acceptable to me.
As for the brilliant colour that you are mentioning. I believe the recent technology of any DSLRs (be it on any brand) should be able to produce a nice colour pictures, along the way, we may need to do some trial and error with some minor tweaking.
I'm not sure if I'm answering your question correctly, but honestly I like to be more enjoy in taking the beautiful birding pictures in the field, rather than spent most of the time editing the pictures
My timing of processing each picture are about 2-3 minutes.
Regards
looks great even untouch.
