Before & After: Lesser Yellowlegs

1/500 | f/6.3 | ISO 320 | 700 mm

Read on to see the before and the processing to get to the after ...

• In Camera Raw (Lightroom): Brought down the exposure by about a stop
• In photoshop, added canvas to the right and filled it in with content aware. Then tilted the image CCW to make the head tilt a little more pronounced.
• Cleaned up the background a bit with the healing brush tool.
• Cropped and resized for web (1200 px tall, 72 dpi)
• Sharpened for web

That's it!