Black-necked Stilt with chicks

[Kambiz Shoarinejad]

Nothing special here, and pretty harsh light too... But still was pretty cute watching how the 4 little chicks got themselves huddling under Mommy :)

Nikon D4, 600mm f/4G with 1.4 TC (TC-14E II), 840mm, f/6.3, 1/1600 sec, 1250 ISO, monopod


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[Arthur Morris]

Neat behavior but there is something funky with the JPEG. Even though the RGB values for the WHITEs are (only) in the mid-240s there is no detail and I used all of my tricks to tease some out without success ... Me thinks that this image was a big over-exposure that you tried to save ... Background clean-up mostly with the Patch Tool. When you 85 degrees off sun angle on a clear day you are D-E-A-D dead.

with love, artie

[Kambiz Shoarinejad]

Neat behavior but there is something funky with the JPEG. Even though the RGB values for the WHITEs are (only) in the mid-240s there is no detail and I used all of my tricks to tease some out without success ... Me thinks that this image was a big over-exposure that you tried to save ... Background clean-up mostly with the Patch Tool. When you 85 degrees off sun angle on a clear day you are D-E-A-D dead.

with love, artie

Thanks Artie... Yes, the light was really harsh and a bad angle too, and the whites were indeed overexposed a bit, though not much more than what you see in the picture. To compare, below is the crop straight converted to JPEG with no other adjustments. And sure, could have used the patch tool to clean up the BG. I guess I typically don't spend too much time on post-processing, unless I feel like I truly have a special image that deserves a lot more time in post. This image was not one of them :)

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