Hi Richard - like the high key look. Open the image in photoshop and sample the whites under the wing and take notice of the RGB values and tell me what you see.
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hi Rich - depends were you sample. Sample some area's under the wing that should be white.
Here is a little tip - set the info palette to display CMYK values also - what do you see. And is that what you want - a colour cast is not always a bad thing.
PS. The info tool does not lie - does not matter if your screen is not calibrated.
Hi Richard. A few points: although head is turned toward the viewer a bit, the overall angle is away from the viewer and not ideal. The biggest problem, that shouldn't be if it was low contrast light if the white background seems to indicate, is the high contrast. Black areas have little or no detail, and Osprey's don't really have black plummage-more of a dark brown. White areas don't have as much detail as I would expect either, though not terrible. How much of crop was this? I see a slight maganta cast. No Fstop indicated.
If the light was indeed low contrast, basically overcast or cloudy, I would push exposure (by push I mean have the camera histogram to the far right with minimal clipping) and essentailly expose for the dark plummage. Then in post-processing drop the exposure to normal and fix any minor highlight clipping if it occured. Actually in low contrast conditions clipped highlights, as long as not too severe, are actually quite easy to deal with by using exposure and recovery sliders, using the exposure slider first. Conversely in high contrast light(direct sunlight) recovery of clipped highlights is very limited and blinkies are to be avoided. regards~Bill
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