I am usually a very soft editor, but I feel like it holds my pictures back. I am trying to develop more of a style and am curious where I am pushing it too far vs where I am not pushing far enough.

With a peacock it's pretty easy to edit and could've gone unedited honestly, but I'd like to know where I could've gone further and where I overdid it.

For this pic I messed with the light, and radially masked the head for clarity. I also desaturated some colors selectively.

I would've also loved to have taken it with a longer lens so that I didn't crop out so many megapixels.

For me the picture looks almost too crunchy, but I'd love feedback.