About time, Dad!

[Fabs Forns]

Purple Martins at Viera Wetlands this afternoon. Place is HOT!!!

D300, 600/4 plus 1.4X
f/5.6, 1/500 ISO 800
Cropped from a full frame horizontal.
White sky slightly colored with Viveza

Comments appreciated :)

[Brutus Ostling]

Great interaction, Fabs!!!

[Vincent Grafhorst]

Great interaction Fabs. Did you use flash here? My guess is not, but if you would have you could have darkened the BG a bit with a higher SS.

[Haim Ziv]

WOW ! great timing. Very well done.

[Fabs Forns]

Great interaction Fabs. Did you use flash here? My guess is not, but if you would have you could have darkened the BG a bit with a higher SS.

Thank you all.

Vincent, it was heavily overcast, sky was totally white in the original and I felt the light blue was enough tampering :o

No flash, it was raining intermittently. :eek:

[Doug Brown]

You've got a hair trigger on that camera of yours Fabs. Great timing!

[susanschermer]

Oh, Wow! I think I'll head up to Viera this week. When are you going back there? Please tell me more about Viveza. I will look it up on the web.

[Fabs Forns]

Oh, Wow! I think I'll head up to Viera this week. When are you going back there? Please tell me more about Viveza. I will look it up on the web.

Hi Susan,

Don't forget the Click Ponds, they are being drained now, you need to get there before 6AM for the best back lit action :)

Viveza is a PS plugin that uses control point technology to work on individual colors, very much like Nikon;s Capture NX. Basically you put a point in the color you want, enlarge or diminish the circle of coverage, the work on Brightness, Contrast, Saturation. In Saturation, you have individual colors, like on my sky, I enlarged the circle to cover the whole image, picked the white sky and increased the blue saturation. I always reduce the red saturation on this case for a more natural blue.

Thanks all!

[Harold Davis]

great capture, mom!!! love the interaction. a winner for sure!!

[Bill Jobes]

I love this shot, Fabs!
-Bill