Color Balance Troubles II

[Harold Davis]

after sean's bird, i was working on this one. what a pain in the rear!! it's a tuffy. i started shooting the snail kites in 12-bit mode as this one is. i have some in 14-bit mode that i have not looked at. hoping to have better quality with those.

D300, Bigma at 500mm,f/6.3, 1/1000s, +0.7EV, ISO 400, ff at +3.0EV w/ bb

comments and critiques are welcome and appreciated

[Alberto Oria]

I like the way it looks Harold,

[Gus Cobos]

Mr. Harold,
I like it, nice colors with sharp details. Love the soft pale blue sky. I would clone out the top of the branch on the lower right side of the frame that is just sticking out...Personal taste...:D good job buddy, keep them coming...:cool:

[Lance Peters]

Harold - love the shape of the wings, open beak pose.

Would get rid of the branches - lower right, Have you used and shadow/highlight recovery??
I know some of these black birds can be really hard to shoot. What are you not happy about???

:)

[Harold Davis]

i think it's hard to replicate their true colors for one thing and having some detail for another thing. exposure was pretty close to being perfect and as soon as i tried to sharpen, i got tons of noise. so what you see is no sharpening. only the eye.

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Harold Still can't figure out what to do with these snail kites Have gotten good results at times on 12 bit but not others !!

I think the best way is to stay with 14 bit since you can't go wrong with it The slow frame rate will not hurt much for these birds.

[Katie Rupp]

Hi Harold,
I've never seen one of these except for the images posted here and in the "big" forum and they lend themselves to a kind of artistic look. I like your image but might crop some off the bottom. BTW, I also like your suggestion for an ETL GTG and wish it were easily possible.

[Arthur Morris]

Looks fine to me and the colors look fine. Nothing for you to learn here; just keep making them like this. Love the raised wings of course, and the open bill.