Hey you little Guy

bfjr

there's only room for one and your times up



Struck me as pretty funny, and you guys know I dig funny :lol4, also you can see the big diff between snowy & great Egrets.

pathfinder

bfjr wrote:

there's only room for one and your times up



Struck me as pretty funny, and you guys know I dig funny :lol4, also you can see the big diff between snowy & great Egrets.

Ben, this is a great capture - such a unique moment captured in time. And funny too, like you said. But aren't egrets supposed to be white, not grey? I think this image still needs some post processing to realize the drama that is here. Lets see this with white birds and saturated colors, please?

bfjr

pathfinder wrote:

Ben, this is a great capture - such a unique moment captured in time. And funny too, like you said. But aren't egrets supposed to be white, not grey? I think this image still needs some post processing to realize the drama that is here. Lets see this with white birds and saturated colors, please?

I don't know PF I came home read your post and went right to work on it. I tried several diff versions but the best I could come up with is this:




does that seem better
this one seems hard to find WB. Look on 3 diff screens all look diff. Check color space, that's OK (AdobeRGB). Maybe someone else will come along and chk it out
Either way thank you for your input, always appreciate help, and Boy do I need it

ian408

Egrets are graceful birds and it's hard to imagine them as fighters. But
they do as I have learned while shooting them.

Nice capture!


Ian

Harryb

bfjr wrote:

I don't know PF I came home read your post and went right to work on it. I tried several diff versions but the best I could come up with is this:

This version is a major improvement.

ginger_55

Yes, Ben, you know I have been complaining about the colors for a long time: contrast and colors.

The content is fantastic!! I love this one. The Great white chasing off the snowy. I see that so often, but on the tree, usually behind much vegetation!

I think there is still a bit of Magenta in there. Are you shooting in RAW? Remember I had a color problem, Andy suggested that only I could fix it as it was a RAW thing. The fix was.

I read my book, took the little eye dropper clicked it on the bird, something white, and I use the color that comes up with.

Now, I am kind of a bit confused as that takes away some of the moodiness I like from the sweet light, sometimes I put a bit back in.

But I wonder if you have an ability to do that with RAW, too.

I love the photo.................amazing that all of you are coming up with the same colors, I told the same thing, in different more careful words, to one of the Jeffs this AM.

Maybe there is a lack of contrast in the light there. But that is why we have PS, enjoy.

I don't feel terribly well, in fact I have something like hives all over. And a sinus thing. Tired.

whine,

good shot,

ginger

Khaos

Cool capture Ben.

bfjr

ian408 wrote:

Egrets are graceful birds and it's hard to imagine them as fighters. But
they do as I have learned while shooting them.

Nice capture!


Ian

I found that Snowys love to bicker and fight, but Greats don't get to excited except during that special time of year

Thanks Ian for stopping by

bfjr

Harryb wrote:

bfjr wrote:

I don't know PF I came home read your post and went right to work on it. I tried several diff versions but the best I could come up with is this:

This version is a major improvement.

Thanks Harry, that is good news hate to think I'm going backwards :uhoh

bfjr

Khaos wrote:

Cool capture Ben.

Afternoon Khaos
Hot like the dickens (I'm keeping it clean ) here, how's by you??

Thanks for replying

bfjr

ginger_55 wrote:

This might be better, this might be worse. I did a lot of different things, would be hard to go into detail, though I could maybe list them. I don't think half or more were even necessary. I can see now that I got yellow, where yellow shouldn't be......... and it may be blown in places, I don't know.....

I still wonder what you have on your RAW thing. At one pt I thought the water wanted to be green. What color is the water naturally?

As usual, I will take this down if you want me to.

ginger

thanks G for giving it a go. To be honest It really was as gray as the 1st shot in real life, just like I said and Doc and Jeff have said we got hot, mucky, gray days here but I got a blue sky shot for you I'll post later

No problem leave it up as long as you like

ginger_55

bfjr wrote:

thanks G for giving it a go. To be honest It really was as gray as the 1st shot in real life, just like I said and Doc and Jeff have said we got hot, mucky, gray days here but I got a blue sky shot for you I'll post later

No problem leave it up as long as you like

I wondered if it didn't have to be kind of grey there, smog???, as you and the Jeffs were all posting the same color.

There is one, I will get the addy, on FM, same grey background, but one hell of a bird shot. I will get the addy, what did Harry tell you re RAW in his e-mail and FM?

http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic2/252462/0#2090660

Rutt sent me that addy a few days ago, told me to look at it. I saw it again today, and I thought about the grey colors. Yet the light was fantastic, contrast and all. Sweet light, yet good shutter speed. Right before the sun goes down, it gets very intense where I shoot. I can blow things easily.

Of course, once it gets dark, I blur things......... no wonder I use 4 gbs of cards and only get a few photos. I should only shoot for 5 minutes, then go home.

ginger

Your bird shots are fantastic!
Oh, and I thought that you all were probably thinking terrible stuff about my green algae on the water where I usually shoot.

ginger