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Mallard- wing flap
went out today to take advantage of the first decent light in ages... hope you like it
7D, 700mm @ f/7.1, 1/640, ISO 800, manual, HH, copped for comp.
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Another terrific photo, Enrique.
O might move it a tad left but that is it, i like the vegetation a lot and a perfect head turn.
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Enrique the muted soft colours make this image for me, water and BG merge together so well, just shows that so called common species can make excellent images.
Keith.
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very nice,like the pose and light,some nice detail.
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Killer pose, angle and water. There is a color cast on the white under the wings. The whites there are looking a tad green/yellow. This is an easy fix with a color balance adjustment.
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Originally Posted by
Marina Scarr
Killer pose, angle and water. There is a color cast on the white under the wings. The whites there are looking a tad green/yellow. This is an easy fix with a color balance adjustment.
Thanks Marina. I did notice that, as I worked on the "lights" of this image. I used the sponge tool to desaturate this area. But, are we sure that there is no hint of yellow on the "white" feathers under the wing? Are we sure it is pure white? The yellow became more prominent as I reduced the luminosity of the brightest pixels in this image... and I opted to leave it like that intentionally. Not sure how "accurate" this color is, but ...
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Super wing flap. Excellent low angle work. I love all the earth tones. The underwing looks funky as Marina pointed out...I'm not bandwagon jumping here, just saying it looks off color and brightness wise. You did a great job freezing the important part of the action at the stated shutter speed. That little bit of bright green vegetation to the right of the bird, slightly in the background, could be removed...only because it stands out so prominently in an otherwise earth toned scene...
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Originally Posted by
Shawn Zierman
Super wing flap. Excellent low angle work. I love all the earth tones. The underwing looks funky as Marina pointed out...I'm not bandwagon jumping here, just saying it looks off color and brightness wise. You did a great job freezing the important part of the action at the stated shutter speed. That little bit of bright green vegetation to the right of the bird, slightly in the background, could be removed...only because it stands out so prominently in an otherwise earth toned scene...
Thanks Shawn. Now I am curious about the "real color" of the underwing of the female mallard... according to this site, the underwing is cream/white color. Same here. But other sites simply say it is "white"...so who knows?? (hopefully somebody does )
As for the green, I would agree... but didn't someone say that when possible, include green on a bird photograph? .. easily removed, if desired...
thanks again
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Would you be willing to post an out of camera image of this shot?.. Only for comparison purposes. I always reserve the right to be wrong, (as I frequently am), but just curious to see how close you were on your post processing compared to straight out of camera?
I'm sure someone did say that bit about including green in an image...it was just an idea :)
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maybe there is a yellow cast... looking at the green in this (bad) monitor ... will see when I get home tonight...
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I will post the original when I get home Shawn... Thanks!
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I like the wing position, low angle, sharpness, details and composition. I would clone out the green bit as well, underwing noted. Great overall colours. Excellent image Enrique.
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this is the full frame image w/o any corrections Shawn. All I did was to export it using LR 5 default settings - "as shot", resize to 1200px, restrict size to 400kb, and standard sharpening for web display... all with LR 5 from the original .CR2 file.
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Wow. Dramatic difference in underwing brightness and tone. Hope you can see it as well on your end. Thanks for the repost, I much prefer the vibrancy in the underwing in the repost compared to the original.
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Originally Posted by
Shawn Zierman
Wow. Dramatic difference in underwing brightness and tone. Hope you can see it as well on your end. Thanks for the repost, I much prefer the vibrancy in the underwing in the repost compared to the original.
I can see a huge difference, and I understand your preference.
I wish I knew how to enhance the detail that is available and "viewable" in the underwing without changing so much of the brightness/tonal differences that result from my PP methods. The repost has no PP done to it... anywhere in the image...
So Shawn, do you like the detail in the underwing in the OP, just not the brightness and tone?
thanks for your interest and comments.
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Originally Posted by
Enrique Patino
... hope you like it
Oh yes, i like it. Wonderful action pose. I love the details and the low angle. The repost looks very great.
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The detail on the underwing in the repost looks great to me. I think I prefer the repost because it looks much more like what I've seen as far tonality when hen mallards wing flap in decent light quality like this. You make great images btw!
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I printed a small version to check and it is too dark... now looking here, it need to be lightened a bit. Man oh man, I am getting schooled...