taken through window,any help to edit more

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For one, I would crop out the window sill.

Perhaps have a play with sharpness and white balance settings. I don't it's ever going to be really sharp to be honest. Would've been good if you'd have gotten the full reflection of the bird in.
 
Hi Cleis.its not an important image but I'm new to editing and i was wanting some advice as id played around a bit but i don't really know what I'm doing too much yet :)already your advice was helpful though so thank you.
I find it amazing on here seeing some of the images and just wondering how its all done .i have so much to learn.
 
Crows have a very iridescent plumage that normally shows a lot of subtle blues, purples and greens which is lost here.

You've shot with water underneath which is basically the same as putting a mirror underneath so you have to trick the camera into exposing properly as there's (at least) a stop of extra light being beamed back up. I would suggest reading up on how to understand metering and how to get the right exposure from that metering.
 
Hi And,I welcome your advise which I will follow up,just to confirm,it all happened in secs as I wasn't sure if he'd fly off which he did so I didn't have time to even see what priority settings I was in.but even so I wouldn't have known about what you suggested so thanks for that.i had time to press the shutter about 4 times and this one maybe came out a bit better,what do you think?
 
i think we are in the same are in terms of learning! i also am very lacking in regards to using the metering beyond the obvious use
im also very lacking in photoshop use
 
And said:
Crows have a very iridescent plumage that normally shows a lot of subtle blues, purples and greens which is lost here.

You've shot with water underneath which is basically the same as putting a mirror underneath so you have to trick the camera into exposing properly as there's (at least) a stop of extra light being beamed back up. I would suggest reading up on how to understand metering and how to get the right exposure from that metering.
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And,can you recommend a book on this or maybe a website explaining in detail about metering in these type of situations,so should i have exposed a stop higher say?(i.e. wider aperture for more light?)
thanks for your patience :)
 
I would have a good read on photography websites/forums and get googling.

I would also recommend shooting in aperture priority mode and learning how to use exposure compensation first as it will give you a better grounding of the basics in that respect which will help with reading the meter in manual priority and can be applied to compensating in that respect. I would also recommend setting the metering up to evaluative or centre-weighted.

It takes time (or it has for me) to get your head round it all but once you get the basics it makes sense.
 
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