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    Default THEME: Cypress Efflorescence with Landing Osprey

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    My wife always says "Why don't you take pictures of trees and flowers". This ones for her...
    Osprey coming in for landing on flowering cypress.

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    A nice try but ... The bird itself looks quite funky/greyed out and I am confused by the word efflorescence in the title. Flowering?? A crop from the top that eliminates the two branches on the upper right would improve it ...

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    Fits the theme well and experimenting in the field is always fun. The bird just gets lost in the branches.

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    Hmm, not sure what to think here. The one thing that interests me is the habitat as we dontt see ospreys approaching these types of trees up here, so that in itself is pretty cool. I agree the Osprey looks greyed out, and somewhat lost in the foliage.

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    Thanks gents for comments and suggestions. Yes, with all those mid to dark tones the osprey was overexposed and my fix was to tug way too hard on a slider. Not even gonna try and improve this one. Yes, Artie, efflorescence is the flowering part of a plant. To add insult to injury, my tree loving wife informs me cypress are conifers and do not flower. So I misused the term according to my (biology major in college) wife. Conifers do produce pollen and the cones contain the seeds. Those hanging structures contain both the pollen and the cones. Too much botany for one day... Thanks again for comments and suggestions.
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    Thanks David. That was my initial thought. You need to learn to work in Manual mode to prevent such over-exposures and to make your life easier on all counts. Try a search on my blog for Working in Manual Mode ...

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    You are so right. I generally do use aperture priority as learned from your materials many years ago. In this case, Three osprey were flying against the blue sky and I was once again practicing/evaluating AF. Then this one flew down into the cypress. I was still set for the sky and of course the tones are much darker in the trees. Thus over exposed whites on osprey. Thanks again for your help.
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    Quote Originally Posted by David Roach View Post
    You are so right. I generally do use aperture priority as learned from your materials many years ago. In this case, Three osprey were flying against the blue sky and I was once again practicing/evaluating AF. Then this one flew down into the cypress. I was still set for the sky and of course the tones are much darker in the trees. Thus over exposed whites on osprey. Thanks again for your help. Peace, David
    In every book I include a clause that says, "If you see me in the field doing something completely different than I am teaching you here it means that I am getting smarter :)

    Try this: set up one of the buttons to lock the EXP and get in the habit of pressing it when the bird is in the sky. Then if the background changes you will wind up with a much better EXP. That said it is 100 times better to learn to work in Manual mode as suggested above :)

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