I was shooting in a bird sanctuary in South Africa.
As the birds were mostly in the shade and moving a lot, the camera was set to a high iso. I saw this flamingo standing in the sun so I and snapped it quickly and before I could change the settings to something more suitable it moved off as a noisy group came up and disturbed it.
The resulting exposure:
Iso 1600, f13, 1/2500, 200mm
I have tried to post process to try and get some detail into the white beak area. Everything I do either makes the white grey or the colours go off.
Any tips?
Thanks
Any tips??? no I think this a well spotted image and well presented.
Crazytooth wrote:
I was shooting in a bird sanctuary in South Africa.
As the birds were mostly in the shade and moving a lot, the camera was set to a high iso. I saw this flamingo standing in the sun so I and snapped it quickly and before I could change the settings to something more suitable it moved off as a noisy group came up and disturbed it.
The resulting exposure:
Iso 1600, f13, 1/2500, 200mm
I have tried to post process to try and get some detail into the white beak area. Everything I do either makes the white grey or the colours go off.
Any tips?
Thanks
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Crazytooth wrote:
I was shooting in a bird sanctuary in South Africa.
As the birds were mostly in the shade and moving a lot, the camera was set to a high iso. I saw this flamingo standing in the sun so I and snapped it quickly and before I could change the settings to something more suitable it moved off as a noisy group came up and disturbed it.
The resulting exposure:
Iso 1600, f13, 1/2500, 200mm
I have tried to post process to try and get some detail into the white beak area. Everything I do either makes the white grey or the colours go off.
Any tips?
Thanks
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Looks fine to me but if you have Photoshop highlight just the beak area and adjust
I selected just the area in question and edited it so there is more detail and it is not gray. If you would like to see it, I will post it and tell you what I did.
I tried in in elements...it looked odd
Hi Wendy2, yes I would be very interested.
Thanks
Crazytooth wrote:
Hi Wendy2, yes I would be very interested.
Thanks
OK. I used CS5, but I would imagine this can be done in Elements too. I isolated the white area, clicked on curves to brighten it, opened a new adjustment layer, clicked on Selective color, chose white, then adjusted the various slider to correct the color to make it whiter.
In the second photo I also brightened the gold in his eye.
Thanks for that Wendy2
I have had another attempt using, I hope with the equivilent functions in Elements.
Practice makes perfect and hopefully my skills will improve...quickly!
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