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    Default Magellanic penguin in surf

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    This image was taken at one of my favorite locations on Sea Lion Island, Falklands

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    Love the image design, the perfect EXP, and the bright bird with the pink around the eye.
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    Wow ,. this was great. I love comp

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    I think its magic. Well thought out and the foam and textures of the water make the image for me. Very nice image Charles and thanks for sharing!

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    The foam is great, as is the bird. The perfect exposure of the highlights has caused the face of the bird to be a little dark and it's difficult on my calibrated monitor to see the lower boundary between the eye and face.

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    Mate, you NEVER miss on EXP! What a wonderful image.
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    Quote Originally Posted by John Chardine View Post
    The foam is great, as is the bird. The perfect exposure of the highlights has caused the face of the bird to be a little dark and it's difficult on my calibrated monitor to see the lower boundary between the eye and face.
    Is the image dark to others or is John's calibrated monitor out of sorts? The highlights are pushed as far to the right as possible during exposure making the blacks bright, thereafter the highlights are selected and detail rendered through post-production tweaks. No blacks have been harmed or brightened, as it is not necessary the way I shoot. I never shoot to intentionally under-expose highlight detail in camera.

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    Last edited by Charles Glatzer; 02-02-2012 at 05:15 PM.

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    Hi Chas- I don't think my Apple 27" Thunderbolt display is out but I will offer up a explanation. I have "Automatically adjust brightness" turned off in Display prefs. During calibration, the Spyder measures ambient light in the room and gives you a target brightness in candelas per square metre, which you then set manually and recheck. Without rechecking the calibration (which I should do soon), it's possible I had moved the brightness slider down a notch or two and forgotten I had done that.

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