Great Egret

[ArthurDent]

This is my first foray into using the Nik collection to edit. Any comments or criticism would be greatly appreciated.

[Anthony]

Egrets are difficult, because their feathers are so white.  This is a very good action capture.  However, there is quite a lot of noise in the sky and in the bird, and some of the breast feathers seem a little over exposed.

[ArthurDent]

Thanks, I re-ran it through Dfine2, the Nik noise reduction program and lowered the exposure a half a stop in the brightest area. What do you think? It appears that the last task in Nik should be noise reduction. In the first image I posted I did the noise reduction first, then sharpening, on the theory I didn't want to sharpen my noise, but it appears to work better if one  performs noise reduction as the last step.

[Anthony]

The noise reduction on the sky has worked well, perhaps a bit heavy on the bird?