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Artie,
Knocked me off the chair, knocked my socks off, Whoaaaa!! Love this frame. Sharp, expressive, dynamic, and the light. Awesome!
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Nice light and pose. The strip at the bottom gives a nice anchor. Framing is right on.
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Artie really great capture. First thing I notice is the lovely wing position capturing that great light.Boy it fills the frame with those out streched wings. I do see some halo mostly around the primaries on the right wing stops after the primaries TFS
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The wing spread is perfect. Bird is really nice and sharp.
I see some processing artifacts- big dust spot in the top of the frame and below the birds left foot just above the horizon line. Also see smudges between the first and second primary.
I would also clean up the 3 little spots on LH side of frame- perhaps they are bugs or more dust spots.
I feel like the color balance is off slightly- sky has a lot of cyan in it but perhaps that is what the light was like.
Finally I would do a bit of levels or adding blacks to the neutrals to give a bit more visual punch to the image.
This is a great frame and definitely worth a bit of TLC!
Gail
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Sweet, sweet light, details and pose. TFS
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Love the base...
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kevin Hice
Artie really great capture. First thing I notice is the lovely wing position capturing that great light.Boy it fills the frame with those out streched wings. I do see some halo mostly around the primaries on the right wing stops after the primaries TFS
Thanks, Kevin. Looking at the master file at 300% I see no evidence of any halos. I think that you are seeing motion blur as the bird whipped the primaries of that wing for flight control.
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Hi Artie spectacular pose and composition, love the inclusion of the ground and the light is just right. The RP is better in terms of clean up. Solid image!
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Sweet pose and light!! I think Kevin was referring to the wings to our right - those tips are sharp and also have a bit of halos around them. Anyhow, high-impact image and I love the layering of feathers on the open wings.
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Repost look great! And Dan is right re: wing on our right or birds' left wing. Sorry for the confusion.
Re: color of the sky and how I might get correct color balance and/or hue? There are many ways to skin a cat such as color balance, using blue luminance slider in LR by decreasing luminance , trying blue hue slider in LR, using cooling filter on sky only in PS.
Another trick is to use the one of the 3 eyedroppers in the levels pop-up panel. There is an eyedropper for whites, blacks and grays. Sometimes that works when nothing else will.
Gail
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Artie, really nice landing frame here. I actually drove through a flock of Sandhills this weekend in Eastern Colorado and it was my first sighting. I think they were heading south to Bosque.
The light seems wonderful and the thin strip of landing pad at bottom worked well from my seat. It still feels like playing with WB and tonal balance could help but would take it in repost also.
FWIW, it appears to be a line going across the frame below the feet and above the ground. Perhaps a cloning mark?
Look forward to seeing ya soon...