This apparent early morning full bright-light shot was a challenge to process. Shot at ISO 1250 because it was early and there was less light than actually seen here, the sensor screwed up the sky colour as it often does when the background is blue and the main subject (here the owl) is white.

Anyway, this involved the reduction of saturation and overwhelming contrast of the sky without affecting the bird. I had to tone way down the blue to render it a more pleasing pastel. I also had to blur away a gaggle of halos around the branches and part of the bird - skies are still a weak point with me when processing my images :-)

Cheers,

Mike