Here's still another from the Hooptie Deux from last weekend. James got us perfectly uplight for all the evening activity, and these Oystercatchers were flying in and out for quite some time. It was actually a lot of fun because there was so much activity that you had to spend a good part of your time figuring out shich species was going to give you the best image at the moment! Thanks again James!
Canon 1DsMII, 600mm f/4L, f/4, ISO 200, 1/1250, manual mode, tripod, from the Hooptie Deux
Very nice flight pose, Bob. I think the image is overexposed, the blacks looks light and there's a big cluster of blown whites under his left wing. Of course, this may have been caused in post/processing. Try going under 2/3rds and see what happens.
I checked the RAW file, and I actually hadn't adjusted it at all (I usually make at least a small adjustment one way or the other). Anyway, when I came down 2/3 the darks didn't look right to me, so I just selected the whites and came down a bit. Is this better? I also corrected that little blip of white at the base of the wing that didn't look natural (but it was).
Sweet pose and the repost is much better with the corrected whites. One of the things that I love best is that folks see stuff that I miss as I was concentrating so hard on something else... Only thing that could make this better now would be the near-wing in the full-up position (that filter coming soon along with the Head Angle filter in Photoshop 64.
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