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    Default Jungle Babblers allopreening

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    Jungle Babblers travel in groups and frequently engage in allopreening, mutual grooming. I captured this in central India, March 2012.

    I removed many OOF twigs in the bkgd with cloning at various opacities. I was stumped on cropping since I had two birds and two eyes looking in different directions. I finally decided on this crop, since I felt the bird under the wing was the most important aspect of the image.

    Canon ID Mark IV, ISO 400, f5.6, 1/160, exp. comp. +1/3. When in the bush I use a monopod for both walking and supporting the camera.

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    i love the birds, the background, the colors, the detail, and just about everything except the branch over their heads. i don't know if such a thing could be erased without trace from a photo like this? anyhow, it's a lovely scene...well captured, Nancy.

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    Very interesting behaviour captured. Sometimes the behaviour captured overides nits in the image. TFS

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    Interesting action well captured Nancy. Nice image.

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    Great behavior shot. Good exp and sharpness, love how the wing feathers out over the right bird. You might consider adding some neutral canvas left and right to create a bit more space.

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    Great behavior. Tight in the frame and too much on the yellow side for me.

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    Thank you everyone. I'll rework the image with the suggestions.

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    Excellent image.

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    I like the behaviour and the "hugging" pose. I agree it is tight in the frame, and careful with the cloning artefacts (see upper left corner). Don't be shy to push the ISO higher for more SS...

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    Way cool behavioral image. Yes to too tight and too yellow. Be right back.
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    Hi Nancy,

    It's rare that I go with a Robert O'Toole Color Balance trick at 100% but it did wonders with the huge yellow/green cast in this image. It is described in detail in Digital Basics which I am pretty sure that you have
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    Nancy, lots of good suggestions above. I liked the poses a lot. The clean view of the face of the other bird is what makes this such a cool shot. Well seen and timed.

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    Nice capture and repost. I wonder which version is closer to what the species actually looks like, color/tone wise?

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    Thank you everyone. Artie, thank you for your image reducing the yellows. Here's my version. It is a little warmer than yours. Maybe somewhere in between. Those streaks in the ULC that look like cloning artifacts are real in the original image. But now I see a round suspicious blob that I need to remove.

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    YAW. Still looks like a big yellow-green cast to me, undoubtedly from reflections off the foliage. The basic question is, are the birds grey? I do not know this species.
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    I looked up in Handbook of the Birds of the World; "dull brownish-gray plumage...belly dull yellowish rufous." Several races, vary from grayish to brownish. I think reflections from the foliage, as you suggest, account for some of the warm look that I remember. But I think I'll take it a few notches down.

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