Lovely Loon

While photographing Wrens by a woodpile in the fall woods, in the shade, I began wondering what I would use for my "eyedropper " sample in LR to adjust my whitebalance. With the first set of images from the woods I played with the sliders to make the White feathers look white with no unnatural, to my eye, color hue or tint. It worked OK but was subjective and relied on my memory of what I thought I saw.

The next trip to the woodpile I took along my 3 little color cards and placed them near there I expected, hoped, my subject would land and made sure to include an image of the cards in my test shots while adjusting for exposure.
Later when I started processing the bird pics from the outing I used the picture of the White and Gray cards with the white balance eye droper to correct the white balance for all the images from that session. This was much quicker and easier and hopefully got me closer to the true colors. Hopefully.

This morning in church I was looking at the lighting on stage and wondering what a white balance challange a picture like the one I have attached, from my cell phone, will pose. Not an idle wonder because I have been asked to help out with collecting some candid photos for the church.
Obviously I could place my dandy little color cards somewhere on stage like I did at the woodpile.
Sitting and looking at the stage, other than the ceiling tiles overhead, I was having a hard time finding a "neutral" color to work with. Absent the color cards, what spot in this image would you select to use begin balancing the colors?

After uploading the picture I have found a couple usefull neutral spots I would or could use. But, in the interest of possibly learning something I'm going to see what advise this stirs up.

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I have been thinking along these lines. Almost like a double exposure in film
The Red Deer is also oversize compared to the buck, And I see a faint image of another head over the red dean's haunch.

Lovely image

Well done. Congratulations

Very nice

Thanks Karin

Thank you Raymond,

[quote=artesdecobo]Thank you

Thank you Frank, I appreciate that

Thanks very much oldpsych

Thanks Craig,
I only started working with the flash in the last month. I like the results but it forces me to work off a tripod.
FYI
I'm using an off camers speedlight, set in line with my lens but 8" higher than if on the hot show. Flash is on manual set to HighSpeedSync and I'm using an older Flash Modifier like the Better Beamer with my flash dialed down to 1/8 power ( the less light the less power)

Thank you Eugene
The Wrens fre quote until visits to the same spot helps alot

Thank you Jack,
The Wrens have been very helpful for me. The woodpile that I have mentioned is about 25 yards from the tidal marsh. At least one pair, might be 2, of Carolina Wrens, a Winter Wren, a Hermit Thrush and a bunch of White Throated Sparrows treat it like a fast food stop. Sit quietly watching the pile and within a few minutes one or another will stop by.
I noticed rhat the Wrens mostly come qnd go from the pile via an invisible airborn coradore to the marsh. So I started staking out their route. The fallen log is on that path and seemed a natural a l pit stop for them.
I keep returning there because a use the woodpeckers also frequent the area, and I hope the fallen log and woodpile. I'm hoping to improve my Woodpecker images.
I had a beautiful Red bellied Woodpecker there the other day but I couldn't get a clean shot of him.
I'm thinking this may also be a good spot for photographing some mammals that may frequent the area but no luck other than squirrels so far.

Thanks very much Ken.
I want to find another spot where some other types hang out a well