Nice pose with the raised leg. More room for to accommodate the virtual feet would be good. The whites seem to be showing a bluish cast on my display. May be an option to neutralise this on the bird but keep the blue of the water in the BG as this works well with the yellow accents on the bird.
Good head angle and I like the feather. In addition to the blue cast, the whites look too grey (dark). And this definitely needs more room below.
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in some metering situations this would work, but if you
will use spot metering on a white bird and go +2/3 to +1 EV or more,
the whites will be about right. Many metering modes and -EV
will give the gray underexposed bird, as will spot metering without any EV (it will be gray)
Last edited by Dave Phillips; 05-17-2009 at 04:08 PM.
I tweaked your image just a bit. Reset the white point, which brought up the brightness, the whites look less grey to my eyes. Also pulled back the blue channel just a bit to help with the cast. Some posterization effects are starting to creep into the background now, but I think it shows you and option.
I find color casts are easy to miss. Esp. if you have been staring at the image during processing for a while.
Best to set it aside and come back later, before posting, to look at it with fresh eyes. The cast and other problems often jump out at you then!
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