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    Default Southern Fulmar in flight

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    This is a Southern Fulmar seen on the Drake Passage sailing north to Ushuaia. They are often seen following ships along with Cape Petrels. These ocean wanderers are incredibly well streamlined for low-cost flight. Note how the legs are completely tucked up in the feathers.

    I cropped, ran some NR on the BG, lightened the eye a little and evened out the BG with the clone tool.

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    Canon EOS 50D, 70-200 f4 IS x 1.4tc @ 229mm
    capture date: Saturday, 12 December 2009, 5:24 PM
    exposure program: Manual
    ISO speed: 640
    shutter speed: 1/1600
    aperture: f7.1
    exposure bias: +0.0
    metering: Pattern
    flash: OFF

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    Wow, I had never seen this bird, love the bill and the blue part on top of it (I'm sure it has a name) Great whites.
    Good job on the BG and thanks for sharing this beauty.

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    Simply gorgeous image of a bird rarely seen by us land lovers! Makes me want to take my first pelagic trip.
    Thanks for sharing:)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fabs Forns View Post
    Wow, I had never seen this bird, love the bill and the blue part on top of it (I'm sure it has a name) Great whites.
    Good job on the BG and thanks for sharing this beauty.
    Hi Fabs- Thanks! The blue thing on the bill is the nares or nostril of the bird. In the petrel group of seabirds, of which the fulmar is a member, the nostrils end in one or two tubes like this, hence the name for the group "tube-nosed" seabirds. Also in this group are the albatrosses, shearwaters, petrels proper, storm-petrels, and diving petrels.

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    Nice soft colours. Great exposure. Very sharp. I would like to see it up in the frame a little. Thanks for the info about the feet.
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    John - Great exposure, flight position, colors. Perfect angle to show the tubenose and disappearing feet. Eager to see more pelagics from your trip.

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    Thanks, John, and yes, the bill shape reminds me of the Albatross.

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    Love the soft overcast light and the pastel colors on the beak, John. Good sharpness and a nice job on the background. Well done.

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    Wow..John I wondered when you come out from behind that computer....very nice image...sharp, lovely background..well done.

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    Yes Paul, I'm still weeding the Antarctic images. It's a slow process but worth it in the end.

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    Lovely image, John. I like the banked pose showing underwing detail - even looks like a drop of salt excretion on the bill tip.
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    Thanks Tony- almost every tubenose I photographed had a "dew-drop" at the end of the beak- usually bigger than this one.

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    Awesome Shot! You really nailed this shot tack sharp and a nice species to capture in flight. I like the wing position and eye contact.

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    Beautiful bird, nice BG, soft light and good eye contact. I might crop a tad off the top and raise the color temperature a bit since the whites have a slight blue cast.

    Thanks for sharing, I've never seen the southern variety.

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    Thanks to all! Here is a modest rework with a bit off the top and slightly warmer whites.

    I had looked at the whites on the belly before, using my standard LAB colour technique- look at the A and B channels and see how close to 0,0 they are. They were pretty close so I left them, but that meant that the underwing whites were on the blueish side. In the repost I used Curves to adjust the B channel (Yellow-Blue gradient) towards the + or Yellow side. Again the effect is subtle so I hope you can detect it. If I took the blue out of the underwings, I think the belly would be too yellow so I only went so far.

    Incidentally, I have wondered for a while how to "raise the color temperature a bit", once the RAW image is processed through ACR. ACR has a color temperature slider but in Photoshop itself how does one raise the colour temperature? I'd be interested to hear various methods people use.

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    The repost looks really good, including the whites. As for color temperature, I do this only in ACR.

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    OK Axel, so I have now set Ps to open jpegs in ACR (should have had this set all along I suppose).

    Now for a discovery, which I had not realised until now- on the ACR Basic tab, the two top sliders are Temperature and Tint, which are in fact the B (blue-yellow) and A (green-magenta) channels respectively, of the LAB colour space. So you are essentially doing a LAB colour correction when you use these two tabs!

    Now a quick question- the ACR color sampler tool provides an RGB read-out. Is there a way of setting ACR to give a LAB read-out?

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    Repost is an improvement John. You can use QM selections to make selective corrections to different parts of teh image if you want to. An simple option after ACR is to use the Photo filter palette. You can easily get the readout to Lab - attached screenshots should help.
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    Panel options lets you choose the display modes you want.
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    Thanks Tony but I was wondering if you can see the LAB readout in ACR, before you get to Ps. I can't see a way of setting this in ACR- RGB seems to be the only option.
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    Sorry John. Looking back I can see I misread your query.
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