Osprey with Sushi
I captured this image from an airboat in the everglades. I was able to take close to 100 shots and I thought this was one if the best poses although there is alot of clutter in the BG. My only issue I need help on is the white part of the front legs are washed out from the sunlight. How do i adjust or can I do something in PS to fix?
Thanks for looking.
jay
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Wow some Osprey pic
did you try image - adjustments - shadows & highlights?
if you load in Camera Raw use recovery slider, it looks there as if blacks are clipped
hope you dont mind I had a go - but I am no expert; I also desaturated the image a little
Last edited by Richard Unsworth; 01-22-2011 at 11:17 AM.
Thanks Richard. The desaturation you did seem to reduce the glare in the white portion of the leg. Thanks againOriginally Posted by Richard Unsworth
Jay, the second image helped the whites a lot. I love this image - great behavioral shot and those eyes - wow! Great work.
Nancy
Beautiful shot. I feel the desaturation not only helped the whites, but the greens look better too. I am not sure how it would look if the saturation were somewhere between the two posts. Sharp photo, lots of detail.
Jay, nice pose by the bird! You do have several almost fatal flaws going on here so let's talk about them.
First, your light was too harsh - it resulted in you not only blowing the whites but blocking the blacks as well. Do you use camera raw in Photoshop to process your images (you need to list this in the future...)? If so, I'd start there by opening the image in camera raw and trying to recover the whites and unblock the blacks there as this is the easiest way to do that. If you don't shoot in RAW then the shadow / highlight adjustment can work as well as creating a duplicate layer and using linear burn to bring the whites down (although here I think they might be outside the scope of what can be recovered.) If you look in the educational forums there's a tutorial there by Arthur Morris about using Linear Burn mode to recover whites....it's very helpful.
You also have a very busy BG - so busy that I looked at the image twice before I even noticed that it had a half-eaten fish in its talons. You didn't include any of your exif data (ss, aperture, ISO, etc.) so I can't give a recommendation on what to do next time. Please make sure you post all that data for every single image or we can't do you much good for future images.
For me, this would be a good behavioral or environmental image but the exposure and background (BG) keep it from being all it could be. You can play with it in PS some more and see where you can get it to but getting it right in camera is what it's all about so keep practicing!
A nice habitat/behavior image. A great stare you are getting, very typical Osprey look when they are feeding and get disturbed. If you shot this raw I think you could recover most of the whites with Julies suggestions. Not much you could do with this BG, but still a nice shot.
Peter
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