Another dingy-grey day here in Seattle. I had good luck to get two of these guys fairly close to shore--but the light was very low. I love these little guys! They really are cool little birds.
1D MKIII 300/2.8 IS + 2X TC
1/320s f/8.0 at 600.0mm iso1000
Really cool pose! Just a +4 bump in Selective color> blacks> black and saved as sRGB. It may be my eyes though as a lot of images are looking a little hazy to me today.
I really like this one, Bonnie! Great pose! You did a fine job making this image. The only thing I might consider is selectively reducing the noise in your subject's eye. The original color/contrast looks ok to me.
Me again! :D Having just looked at your image of this subject over in OOTB (http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...ad.php?t=12691) I'd be very tempted to pull a good amount of yellow out of the whites in this image :)
EDIT: OK! I couldn't help myself! :) The rework is attached above...
Made a selective color adjustment layer and did the following:
White: -20% yellow, -13% black
Yellow: -14% cyan, +11 % magenta
Get's rid of the bit of a green cast in the reflection as well.
Pied-billed Grebe
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