Youngster

[Ilija Dukovski]

This juvi Barn Swallow was take Fri morning at Belle Island Reserve in Boston.
Critique appreciated.

Nikon D80 Nikkor 300mm+TC1.4 f/5.6 1/100 Matrix AP+2/3 ISO400 Fill flash -1 1/3

[Desmond Chan]

I could be wrong, but on my monitor, this image seems to have a color cast on it. The perch appears to have a lot of things happened to it that it has turned itself into a busy background for the bird. The bird itself has a lot of details and so is the perch. I wonder if it was possible for you to shoot from a different perspective...to not to show the surface of the perch too much...Anyway, just my two cents. :)

Thanks for sharing!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the pose and soft light and agree that the trunk is somewhat overpowering.

[Ilija Dukovski]

I could be wrong, but on my monitor, this image seems to have a color cast on it. The perch appears to have a lot of things happened to it that it has turned itself into a busy background for the bird. The bird itself has a lot of details and so is the perch. I wonder if it was possible for you to shoot from a different perspective...to not to show the surface of the perch too much...Anyway, just my two cents. :)

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Desmond, I don't really see a cast. There's lots of green in BG and perch but not on the whites of the bird.
I do have some with different perspective, will post...

Thanks...

[Ilija Dukovski]

I like the pose and soft light and agree that the trunk is somewhat overpowering.

Thanks Axel,
I thought that the perch texture is interesting by itself. I did few with lower angle, will post...

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks Desmond, I don't really see a cast. There's lots of green in BG and perch but not on the whites of the bird. I do have some with different perspective, will post... Thanks...

Sorry Charley. There is/was a huge green cast to this image.... In addition, the bokeh on the bark is weird. :)

[Ilija Dukovski]

Sorry Charley. There is/was a huge green cast to this image....

Hm, I didn't see it and the re-post to me has a bit of magenta cast.
This is second time that it happened to me. I re-calibrated and it seems even worse now.
I obviously need to do more careful recalibration...

Thank you very much:)

[Arthur Morris]

The tree bark in the repost looks pretty grey to me. I would appreciate hearing what others are seeing. If you open both images and tool around with the eyedropper while checking the RGB values in Info, you will see that there is way too much green in all colors. If you do an average blur on the original image, the RGB values are as follows: R/123, G/131, B/83. The numbers don't lie. That is a green cast.

[Ilija Dukovski]

The tree bark in the repost looks pretty grey to me. I would appreciate hearing what others are seeing. If you open both images and tool around with the eyedropper while checking the RGB values in Info, you will see that there is way too much green in all colors. If you do an average blur on the original image, the RGB values are as follows: R/123, G/131, B/83. The numbers don't lie. That is a green cast.

Oh no I'm not questioning that there is a green cast. I said this is second time somebody points out a green
cast and their repost also looked with magenta cast to me. That means I did not do a proper callibration.
The question is how do I do proper callibration. Yesterday I tried on the Mac and
didn't like the result. I also tried the defaults, no good. I tried the ER forum but did not get a clear cut answer
how to do proper calibration. Can you please point a link to ER thread with proper calibration procedure?


Thanks again, I really appreciate your help, and especially that you are taking the time to go into details and
full attention to problematic, not only good images.
This way my learning curve is quite steep :)