Red Crested Yuhina.

[pinakibaidya]

.C&C are welcome.

[Downrigger]

Really charming creature nicely captured. Maybe its a tad soft (but it's still pretty darn sharp) because the autofocus got caught up in the intervening upright branch. The part that puzzles me is this: That intervening upright branch seems to have its middle segment sharp, and to be oddly joined to its abruptly out-of-focus lower and upper extensions... which I don't understand. Or maybe I'm not looking at this correctly.

[tamccain]

Really charming creature nicely captured. Maybe its a tad soft (but it's still pretty darn sharp) because the autofocus got caught up in the intervening upright branch. The part that puzzles me is this: That intervening upright branch seems to have its middle segment sharp, and to be oddly joined to its abruptly out-of-focus lower and upper extensions... which I don't understand. Or maybe I'm not looking at this correctly.

maybe some sort of selective focus in PP? That is puzzling to me too.

[NorthernFocus]

Cute little bugger. Slightly soft as mentioned and the PP blurring job is pretty rudimentary. But if I didn't mention it's a cute little bugger...

[Wavelength]

Lovely bird indeed; but too much going around and some leaves even mimic the bird; i think a trim would help
Regards

[pinakibaidya]

Thank you all for viewing my pic and your valuable opinion.Actually the bird was surrounded by leaves and twigs and as i was using Panasonic Lumix FZ depth of field was not shallow.I tried to pp in photoshop by using slection tool and Lense blur tool.However the twig as you rightly pointed out is looking odd.

[Bobobird]

Redo the branch, sharpen up the cute bird a bit, leave the distant blurring as is. That should fix it I think.

Did I say cute? Ah, yes I did.

[pinakibaidya]

Bobo, i could not understand what did you mean by "redo".Would you explain a bit?

[deetheturk]

Hi Pinaki,i think Bobo meant re-do,as in bring it back into focus!

Cheers David

[FrankMi]

Hi Pinaki - I think it great that you are learning post processing skills to better your images. Many photographers avoid spending time at the computer to learn these skills but to me it's a bit like applying the final finish to complete the process.

This is an excellent image to experiment with layers, selections and masking so that you can apply changes such as sharpening, blur, contrast, brightness, vibrancy, etc. to specific parts of an image (such as the background or foreground) separately from the subject. You can even softly change these effects over distance to bring attention to specific parts of an image such as the bird in this case.

[pinakibaidya]

Is it ok?

[FrankMi]

The blending between sharp and blurred is much smoother now. Nice!

[deetheturk]

This is much better,well done!

[Downrigger]

Wow - tons better, and still very nice! If you wanted, you could drop the brightness surrounding your subject with some brush dodging or post-crop vignetting but not necessary, and if done, not more than 1/3 stop or so.

[jamn4ex]

wow pinaki the second post looks great!