Brown Pelican Diving (version 3)This is my third version of this photo. I received some very helpful comments on the second and many people felt that it was still too grainy in the sky. I was not sa

This is my third version of this photo. I received some very helpful comments on the second and many people felt that it was still too grainy in the sky. I was not satisfied with the sharpness in the bird or the "presence" in its eye. This final image is the result of several layers with sharpness controlled in the bird but blurring of the sky to get rid of the graininess. I also created several differently exposed several images from the raw file and layered them to control sharpness and the backlighting in the bird's face.