Tern

[Jim Crosswell]

I took this image last week at a local beach near my house. Thanks for any comments and suggestions.

Nikon D500
Sigma 150-600 @ 400mm
ISO 1600
1/1600s
f6
Handheld

[John Mack]

Good flight pose on the bird. Is this a cropped horizontal frame?

[Jim Crosswell]

Thanks for the comment John. Yes this is cropped from a horizontal. Cropped in on the sides with the top to bottom dimension cropped in a little bit.

[Colin Driscoll]

Jim, that's a great angle but there seems to be a strong yellow cast on the bird.

[Bill Dix]

Hi Jim. Very nice flight pose and comp. I agree the WB could be revisited.

[Arthur Morris]

Hi Jim,

I like the pose. Yes to the YELLOW/GREEN color cast. But this is a very strange image. I brought it into PS and tried RGB Curves Color Balancing it but all three channels showed as hot. Then I tried Average Blur Color Balancing and that failed miserably. As a last resort, I simply reduced the YELLOW and GREEN saturations. Stranger still when I tried to do some Selective Color work on the sky I noted very little if any changes even when I moved the sliders all the way to one side or the other. If you love this one you might want to start over.

with love, artie

[gail bisson]

Hi Jim,
Nice to see you posting again. Welcome back!
There is a very strong cyan/yellow cast to the image. It is nice and sharp so definitely worth reworking in PP,
Gail

[Jim Crosswell]

Thanks everyone for the comments and suggestions. Thanks Artie for reworking the image. Gail I will try to post more and thanks for the welcome back. Here is a repost trying to adjust the color issues.

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks Jim. Much better. The original post was not you :)

with love, artie