One of the problems in doing photography is deciding when a marginal picture is worth the effort to try and save it ..... Like many here I started with film and reading AA .. and so I fully believe that the digital file from the camera is a sketch and what one does in post completes the process .... This picture is one from a sequence of 15 ....
The focus is marginal in my evaluation. the bird and background blend into each other as the lighting is not great ... Here is where I took it in post
Not a really difficult job but would I like to do that 14 more times? (Selecting the bird from that background does take time and effort with the program I'm using ) ..... Not sure .. But I thought this might be an interesting question for this forum. Where do you draw the line? .... When is a picture worth the effort and when not?
WhyNot
(I probably have better examples for this question but this what I was working on this morning.)
As an after thought the first image is the original after crop .. Here is original after conversion from Raw to Tiff, Noise reduction and conversion to JPEG for this forum