Richard Kowalski
02-08-2008, 10:37 PM
A rather quiet dawn at Sweetwater Wetlands in Tucson... Well bird activity wise; actually thousands of Red Winged & Yellow Headed Blackbirds were making a deafening racket when I got out of my car!
Not too much out of the ordinary when I was there, but many of the Shovelers were taking their morning baths. I captured this male in the middle of wing drying. The previous image in the sequence has near perfect wing position behind him, but I like this pose best. Not too sure of the Head Angle though. I think a little more towards me probably would have been better.
I was concerned about burning out the whites and needed to bring the exposure up in ACR by 2/3rds stop before the first pixels saturated, so while the neck looks a bit hot in this version, it isn't in the original. Boy these really are tough to expose correctly! Time for me to review ABP (the softcover book) Chapter 3 again I guess!
Canon 20D, 1/1000th, ISO 400, EV -1.0, Av
Sigma 50-500 - 500mm @ f/ 6.3
WB, exposure & crop in ACR, Noise Ninja, ccw rotation, S/H adjustment, touch of eye sharpen, +10 blue channel saturation, cloned out part of a Widgeon head in bg w/ PS
Not too much out of the ordinary when I was there, but many of the Shovelers were taking their morning baths. I captured this male in the middle of wing drying. The previous image in the sequence has near perfect wing position behind him, but I like this pose best. Not too sure of the Head Angle though. I think a little more towards me probably would have been better.
I was concerned about burning out the whites and needed to bring the exposure up in ACR by 2/3rds stop before the first pixels saturated, so while the neck looks a bit hot in this version, it isn't in the original. Boy these really are tough to expose correctly! Time for me to review ABP (the softcover book) Chapter 3 again I guess!
Canon 20D, 1/1000th, ISO 400, EV -1.0, Av
Sigma 50-500 - 500mm @ f/ 6.3
WB, exposure & crop in ACR, Noise Ninja, ccw rotation, S/H adjustment, touch of eye sharpen, +10 blue channel saturation, cloned out part of a Widgeon head in bg w/ PS