The bird subject looks reasonably OK to me for colour and exposure, but the sand and BG is too blue for my liking. I made a separate layer for the bird and BG and adjustment layers of levels, saturation, and brightness for both. The results of these was posted today as Masked Lapwing. I tried haze reduction, and also tried auto this and auto that, and only auto levels was of benefit but still not looking right to me. I suspect that there is a simple solution which escapes me. The attached image has been adjusted in RAW to increase temperature from 4000 to 4300, highlights and whites reduced, blacks made black, and shadows reduced, but is still lacking. Help please.
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