Sea Gull with fluff not so cute
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They're over-exposed. Try reducing the exposure, and/or recovering the highlights and pulling the black point in. Should give some more definition. How you go about doing that will depend on the software you are using.
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Hi Dean, two good action shots of a Gull`s natural behaviour. As mentioned they are overexposed but I think it is hardly likely you will get too much detail back from them, and imo trying to change the bg will make them look even more false looking.
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There should be plenty of detail in there, I just had a quick play with the JPEG and you can pull it back quite a bit just with a basic curves adjustment.
The original file, especially if it was shot in raw, would be perfectly salvageable I think.
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How about a darker BG as well as gaining exposure?
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Well James as the OP has edit enabled, perhaps you could show us what you have achieved.
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Don't really see the point with a massively compressed JPEG, as it's just going to look poor. But you can tell there is detail there, which would be greater in the original file.
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It would be greater but imo you would still not get enough detail back from the blown whites