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    Taken about 20 minutes after the photo of the Green Heron I posted yesterday.
    I stood in the same spot to take both.
    I have the best bird pond in the country, I swear!
    A resident breeding pair with chicks in the nest right now.
    Pacific northwest low morning cloud cover..

    D500, 1/3200, f5, 500mm (300 w/ 1.7tc), iso6400

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    I have about 10 or 12 decent frames from this dive but at iso6400 I really
    struggle with the white balance. I processed this and processed a few others and
    I got the original off I believe.
    It was gray flat light and the Eagle was diving against trees.
    Does this look better?
    I am there almost everyday, I should know but....

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    First up, its (another) lovely frame, nice action with the stare from the bird. The first is pretty close to being bang on for me, the second has a yellow cast. I took the first and had a play and using the WB pipette on the bright whites on the head only gave a very small alteration, slightly warmer and with a tiny touch extra of magenta tint.

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    I think you did really well with the light conditions you had. Pretty clean for ISO 6400. As you say the light is flat. I don't know if you can lighten up inner wings on both sides tiny bit to bring out the detail but you could have a lot of noise in that space.]

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    The pose is great and the composition is spot on. Details look very nice for the low light.

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