Boat-tailed Grackle

ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
edited December 11, 2005 in Wildlife
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(I shoulda, and I will, burn in the very bottom of those photos. Wasn't thinking)

Below, the female Grackle

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And the male Grackle

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The color in the two skies are different, so I either messed up in post, or the light had changed, which it was doing constantly that morning.

ginger
After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.

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  • jeff lapointjeff lapoint Registered Users Posts: 1,228 Major grins
    edited December 9, 2005
    Very nice series Ginger!thumb.gif I especially like the first shotxzicon_smile_cool.gif

    -jeff
  • RohirrimRohirrim Registered Users Posts: 1,889 Major grins
    edited December 9, 2005
    Nice set Ginger. I also like the first one.
  • howardhoward Registered Users Posts: 89 Big grins
    edited December 10, 2005
    The first two are my favorites. If there's room for a re-crop I'd prefer the bird more to the right in the second one. Howard
  • johnojohno Registered Users Posts: 617 Major grins
    edited December 10, 2005
    Very nice Ginger... How did you get the first shots? Very low to the ground... Were you on your belly? rolleyes1.gif Great colors and I love the composition on #1.

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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited December 10, 2005
    Good set Ginger
    Harry
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited December 10, 2005
    1st and 2nd one for me thumb.gif
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited December 10, 2005
    Thanks all. Yes, I do like the first and second one myself. The second one is full frame, but I like that strut, so that is why I picked it. I have about ten similar shots, so it isn't easy. If I had an assistant, he/she could work them all up, I do love them.

    Such a plain bird to come out with such nice colors. They fly in flocks. I was bored between heavy rain, the day I was doing the raptors. These would fly near where I was sitting in my car. I finally started photographing them.

    Actually, I photographed many birds. I have discovered that I much prefer photography to photoshop. I have a gazillion shots I should be working on. I forced myself to do these last night, and I am a bit disappointed in myself in the PS. Lazy, hurried and uneven. But, hey, the shots were very good. I considered just turning them into jpegs and not messing with them. But I don't do that...........at least not yet.

    Thanks for stopping and commenting. Yes, for those on the ground shots, I was on one side of a narrow unused road, and the birds were on the other side. Sometimes it rained, sometimes it didn't. I took photos of anything that moved just about.

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • VikingViking Registered Users Posts: 178 Major grins
    edited December 10, 2005
    like the crackle. But not the GREEN colorcast. headscratch.gif
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited December 10, 2005
    Oh, thanks, Viking. Is it in all of them?

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • VikingViking Registered Users Posts: 178 Major grins
    edited December 10, 2005
    I just see it in the two last images. Maybe its my screen that need a calibration. Or me eyes! Well, I did a Viking color correction of it, and will post the result tomorrow when I wake up. Becous now I am very tierd and hungry.
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited December 10, 2005
    Viking wrote:
    I just see it in the two last images. Maybe its my screen that need a calibration. Or me eyes! Well, I did a Viking color correction of it, and will post the result tomorrow when I wake up. Becous now I am very tierd and hungry.
    Thanks, Viking, yes, I did mess up badly on those last two. One looked kind of cyan/green to me. The other, too blue, too something.

    I hate the idea that I will have to trash them or do them over, which I will. I was trying to make the sky something it wasn't...............the fast way.

    The first two, I didn't think I did enough to those, those colors I remember from the first time I saw the bird.

    I agree with you on the last two.

    Thanks for all,

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • VikingViking Registered Users Posts: 178 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2005
    ginger_55 wrote:
    Thanks, Viking, yes, I did mess up badly on those last two. One looked kind of cyan/green to me. The other, too blue, too something.

    I hate the idea that I will have to trash them or do them over, which I will. I was trying to make the sky something it wasn't...............the fast way.

    The first two, I didn't think I did enough to those, those colors I remember from the first time I saw the bird.

    I agree with you on the last two.

    Thanks for all,

    ginger
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    :) You dont need to trash them. Just open then in photoshop or some other app that can change colors. :-)
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