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Hi Artie, the black makes for a striking backdrop, helps to illuminate the crown plumage. Personally it you have it, would prefer some more canvas to the LHS, a wee be tight for me. Dropping the Blue via a saturation adjustment & blend mode to saturation, gives a more 'pristine white' around the head & neck, WDYT?
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Lovely image Bhai, infact i like the fact that the flash did not fire as it gave the back light to be of more power illuminating the feathers
Black BG makes a great one for this bird
Agree with Steve on some canvas on the left side
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Artie:
The very strong backlight, with adequate light on the face, preening pose with parallel head position, dark background, all work for me.
I am with Steve, more room to the left.
I am sure you have done this countless times, but I often will fire a burst of shots with flash, and get a series of decreasing flash exposures, which then allows you to pick the balance you want. Perhaps some of our less experienced members could try that to their advantage.
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Artie:
The very strong backlight, with adequate light on the face, preening pose with parallel head position, dark background, all work for me.
I am with Steve, more room to the left.
I am sure you have done this countless times, but I often will fire a burst of shots with flash, and get a series of decreasing flash exposures, which then allows you to pick the balance you want. Perhaps some of our less experienced members could try that to their advantage.
Cheers
Randy
Good point. With the flash at +1/3 all that I got was flash/no flash :)
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Very pleasing image and the RP is even better. Love the back lighting and the dark BG. The bird really pops and it doesn't hurt that it's got a feather in a vice grip.
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Hi Artie, the hint more canvas works, plus going more 'pristine', as I like the contrast of the white against the rich black.
Question: Are you happy with the areas of what appears to be blown whites, although slightly less noticeable in the RP?
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Steve,
Though I am normally fine with a bit of clipping on the rim light with strongly backlit white birds,, there are no blown highlights on the TIF with this image.... And I a fine with the very bright areas. The highest RGB # I could find is 244. Most of the brightest whites are in the mid to high 230s.
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Thanks Artie, sometimes compression and scaling can emphasis, it's certain no deal breaker, but appreciate the clarification.
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Would love to get close to one of these Arthur but it doesn't happen in this country much ! The space left is a definate improvement. I happen to like black backdrops even with macro stuff. Everyone doesn't of course.
To be realy honest I can't see that much difference in the two posts colour wise. ( But as I have mentioned colour is not my strong point.) I tried my antiquated blown whites dropper test in Paint shop pro and it looks fine. It does show the blue well down.
John R
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A beauty Artie... I like the RP better.
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Excellent capture! I like the re-post better. Love the HA, dark background and back lighting!