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    Ákos Lumnitzer
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    I captured this at the same pond as its parent that I posted yesterday. Unfortunately these Swans just get TOO close! I was struggling to find a good comp with this cygnet. Composed horizontally and cropped off both sides, the height is full frame vertical.

    30D, 300/1.4x, ISO400, f/6.3, 1/1000th, +2/3 EC, evaluative metering.

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    Nice exposure techs, like the +2/3, this would have been an opportunity to spot meter as well.

    Great eye and a fantastic picture of a beautiful baby.

    The 30D has been good to you. I ordered a 7D, but still will not be able to match your standards - well done.
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    Up close & personal- very nice! Great detail on the face and love that hanging droplet. Interesting that on my screen it looks a little bright and a large patch of down on the neck appears blown. A couple of times you have commented that my images have been a bit flat so I wonder if we have different monitor settings, mine being a little brighter.

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    Thanks Jeff and Colin for looking and the comments.

    Jeff, come on mate, you are doing very, very well with birds. Don't make me blush please. :) I appreciate your kind words though.

    Colin,
    Thanks mate. Do you check the calibration strip at the bottom of the webpage? You should be able to tell the blackest blacks and the whitest whites. I am attaching my histogram from CS4 and it has no blown highlights. I did tweak levels a touch as originally they were hot. Thanks again mate. :) Maybe I did something wrong? If you save the image and open it in photoshop and check the histogram, you should get the same tonality spread.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ákos Lumnitzer View Post
    ....Maybe I did something wrong?
    More likely I would than you at this stage of my inexperience :) Of course, the calibration strip! and from that my screen would be a smidgen on the dull side as I can clearly separate the last two white boxes but have to look hard to split the last two black boxes.

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    See the red arrow? That's the slider I moved from 255 (bright white) back to about 250 from memory then tweaked levels and no more blown pixels. :) Of course you do that on the master file (tiff or psd).

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    Lovely portrait, Amos. Love the texture in the plumage. Eye detail and water drop are great. The specular highlights have a magenta hue on my monitor - not sure if this is a digital fringing/chromatic aberration issue or atmospheric from your recent dust storm. Agree with Colin that the area on the neck looks blown. Not in being clipped as you have clearly demonstrated but in not having any detail suggesting that they were overexposed at capture. If I am understanding correctly the histogram was clipped but you removed the clipping by adjusting the output level down from 255 to 250 - my understanding is that making the adjustment to the output levels removes the clipping from the histogram by limiting the maximum brightness to 250 instead of 255 but doesn't recover detail. The area remains blown but just doesn't show as pure white. I may be wrong but that is how I understand it.
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    Akosbhai
    lovely pose , nice plumage and water drops adding so much , I am not sure about techs , but large patch on neck looks like blown
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tony Whitehead View Post
    Lovely portrait, Amos. Love the texture in the plumage. Eye detail and water drop are great. The specular highlights have a magenta hue on my monitor - not sure if this is a digital fringing/chromatic aberration issue or atmospheric from your recent dust storm. Agree with Colin that the area on the neck looks blown. Not in being clipped as you have clearly demonstrated but in not having any detail suggesting that they were overexposed at capture. If I am understanding correctly the histogram was clipped but you removed the clipping by adjusting the output level down from 255 to 250 - my understanding is that making the adjustment to the output levels removes the clipping from the histogram by limiting the maximum brightness to 250 instead of 255 but doesn't recover detail. The area remains blown but just doesn't show as pure white. I may be wrong but that is how I understand it.
    I think you are right Tony, I am not sure who Amos is though. :D
    I should be able to revisit the raw file and combine two versions, provided there is enough detail in the bright area. I just looked at the RAW file and attached the histogram from DPP. It appears the whites are not clipped, as indicated and that is straight OOC. I darkened the image and the detail is all there. Phew. :) So it was my PP that should have been able to recover all that. Thanks fellas.

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    I promise I won't post another image into this thread. :) Just wanted to show you the version I reprocessed once I realized where I went wrong. Thanks everyone.

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    Now you're talkin'! That's more like what I have come to expect from you in my short time here

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    Sorry Akos, must have been my spellcheck and I didn't read carefully enough before pressing send:(
    Latest image looking good.
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