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    While the chicks are much cuter, it is fun to watch the parents. The chicks run in all different directions. The poor parent must decide where to stand to keep a watchful eye on 3 or 4 chicks.
    Last week - D300s with 600VR and 1.4 tc. 1/500 at f/6 manual exposure, flash at -2
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    What a cute little chap he is! I really like the composition and theexposure, the detail is first class. I get the impression the image has a cast, I took the liberty of downloading it and simply applied Auto levels and to me it really improved the colours - you may disagree but I would be interested to read your thoughts.
    I have of course now deleted your image from my computer.

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    You did not upload what you did so I did an quto tone. It was way too bright so I quickly went to brightness (legacy) in PS 5 and reduced brightness -18.

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    Very nice, focus and DOF is really good.
    Maybe a bit noisy BG, easily fixed.
    Well done.
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    Allan - love the repost, could you enlighten my darkness please, when you wrote (legacy) what does this mean - is this something only found in CS5. Thanks.

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    Repost without the yellowish cast looks great Allan, agree about a little BG noise but easy fixed. Nice work

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jonathan Ashton View Post
    could you enlighten my darkness please, when you wrote (legacy) what does this mean - is this something only found in CS5. Thanks.
    See this page. It explains it better than I could. I normally would not use brightness, but I needed a quick fix after do auto tones.

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    I guess I'm just a bit different , but I like the original. The light has a warm feel to it and the side lighting gives the image some depth. The repost just looks too steril for my taste.

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    FWIW, I think I like the original tones myself. I have been working on some similar images. In one case I did lower the color temperature by about 150K. In the case of this original image, I think I would have left it just where it is. For some reason the contrast also looks softer in the first picture and I think that works a bit better for this image.
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    very nice Allen,Ilike them both,I agree with the others about the noise in the BG,thanks.

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    I did the repost because Jonathan mentioned doing what I did in his post (#2.)
    I like the original better, but I probably would do a auto tone and fade most of it as I now think the original is a bit yellow.

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    That was the concern I had for some of my images like this as well (too yellow). I think I liked cooling the temp down a bit in these cases as a technique rather than working with levels. I take it that 'auto tone' has a similar effect?
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