i worked on this one to get rid of a halo around the right wing of the bird. it was on the original out of the camera and it made the back edge of the wing look blue. used selective color to get it out.
D300, Bigma at 500mm, f/6.3, 1/1250s, ISO 640, +0.7EV
thanks for looking. comments and critiques are much appreciated.
Hi Harold - it does look a bit washed out on my monitor which is calibrated and I'm running Safari 4.0.2. I tried levels and pulled back both ends. That brightened the bird but the left underwing was then a very strange color. On your original post that same underwing seems to have a yellow/green hint to it. I am not sure what color the shaded underwing of a Snail Kite should be. For some reason I don't see too many of them up here (smile).
Maybe you are not supposed to take a photo of a kite with the wings down??? (smile)
Nice bird, nice composition.
Cheers
Gail
These birds come out strange, remember the ones from last year I tried just about everything !! Do you have your camera set on 14 bit? Did you have to use strong noise reduction?
I like the in flight pose wouldn't mind having the head showing up on top of the wing but sweet as presented !!!
Doctor Davis,
The flight angle and the down position of the wings showing all of the fine, sharp details are superb...I like this very much, love the sharp eye contact...congrats...:cool:
Harold, These guys are tough !! And you did well with the flight sharpness,the wing position is nice and the composition looks great. I do see a bit of yellow on the underwing also. This is heads above any SK flight shot I have!!:)
Harold - I remembered seeing at least one article on color management and internet browsers. Couldn't remember a specific article, so I did a Google search for "color management internet browser". Found some informative articles. One was http://www.naturefocused.com/article...anagement.html
Also found discussion at the BPN Digital Flow forum (searched 'browser') and at ER forum.
I assume you are working in Adobe RGB (1998) or Adobe RGB Pro, and then when you go to the internet you are switching to sRGB, thus changing the color gamut.
Anyway, there's is lots to learn about color management, but Safari is a color managed browser and seems to do well in tests.
Cheers
Gail
Last edited by Gail Spitler; 07-15-2009 at 08:43 AM.
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thanks, gail. will give it a good read and see what i can come up with. i've seen some other posts lately here on BPN where people are not converting to sRGB when saving for web. i may try that and see what happens.
Female Snail Kite v2
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