Skimmer after a bank and above nesting skimmers and terns. Taken at Nickerson a few weekends ago. The wingspan is a whopping 42-50 inches for a body length of 16-20 inches!
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Skimmer after a bank and above nesting skimmers and terns. Taken at Nickerson a few weekends ago. The wingspan is a whopping 42-50 inches for a body length of 16-20 inches!
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I love the DOF on the grasses blowin in the wind..Fabulous flight pose and good detail. I have never photographed these birds, but wondering if the underside could be 'whiter' Well done Ann a very nice capture.
Will
Very nice. Love the pose on the bird with the full wing span. The two toned background is nice as well. Grasses add a nice element.
I love that background and that is one of the reasons I like Nickerson so much.
Nice and sharp and fantastic wingspread.
I would reduce the yellows in the whites in selective color.
Very nice frame. Not sure about the color balance in the image- the sky seems a bit cyan to me but you were there so will trust your eye on this!
Gail
Yes, a wicked pose. The WHITEs below look just fine to me. Great that you got the head above the line of the grasses. Sharp with a perfect EXP. I am guessing that you cropped a bit from behind the bird.
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Very nice flight image. I had exactly the same impression as Gail, that the color balance is off
I did a quick adjustment with curves, and thought it gave cleaner whites and colors. Just an option.
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Randy
Last edited by Randy Stout; 08-13-2018 at 08:33 PM.
The pose, details and background are killer Ann. Very nice. I will probably go there on Saturday as am staying the weekend right near there and hope to get something as pretty as this shot. But the colors are not right. Gail is correct and Randy's repost is s step in the right direction but I think it can go a step further to make the whites a bit whiter, the blacks a bit blacker, the sky a bit bluer and even less yellows in the whites. Note that I did not bother to make sure the highlights in the whites are 100% correct, just did some global adjustments. You can do that when working on the original full res file.
Okay, thanks for all the comments and suggestions. I need help! I am often at a loss with color casts and color balance. The exposure on this skimmer had no blinkies and no blocking. I think my processing regarding exposure stops at levels and I am not sure what I am missing... Any suggestions for me? I can't even identify color cast, so Im not sure what to do... My laundry list includes color casts, color balance and selective colors... Thanks and appreciate your time and suggestions.
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nice bank, I like the BG too, needs a bit more sharpening and the strong color cast noted too. skimmer underbelly should be perfectly white. it seems like either your monitor is not calibrated or the software you are using ruins the capture WB...
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Okay, here's my repost and what I did: in Curves, I set my defaults to RGB:245 and RGB: 10. I put the color picker on the whitest whites, and on the blackest blacks... Reduced yellows in selective color Whites, and increased cyans in the selective color blue... Added a bit more sharpening but looks like there is an outline now... Also, there are splotches of yellow in the underbelly on the RAW, along with a grayed area, in the bottom of the belly (shadow)... Overall, WDYT? Several of you had reposts and suggestions so i tried my best to consider all you said.. Thanks
major improvement from your original Ann.
While the color is much better in all three reposts, do note that the skimmers actually have yellow on the flanks and the belly during the breeding season ... The other consideration is: do you want all the WHITEs at 240, 240, 240, for example, or do you want to keep some of the warm light? Isaac's and Ann's repost are the most neutral but I like Randy's best (thanks all!) because he has kept the warm light.
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In retrospect, you might consider eliminating the bit of yellow below and slightly behind the far wing; it draws the eye.
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