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