Flamingo: 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...

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Apr 22, 2013 15:54:12 #

Crazytooth Loc: Suffolk, UK

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

Apr 22, 2013 16:01:11 #

GWR100 Loc: England

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... (show quote)

Apr 22, 2013 16:12:37 #

creativ simon Loc: Coulsdon, South London

Crazytooth wrote:

I was shooting in a bird sanctuary in South Africa... (show quote)

Looks fine to me but if you have Photoshop highlight just the beak area and adjust

Apr 22, 2013 23:41:01 #

Wendy2 Loc: California

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.

Apr 23, 2013 14:43:03 #

Crazytooth Loc: Suffolk, UK

Thanks for looking

Apr 23, 2013 14:43:45 #

Crazytooth Loc: Suffolk, UK

I tried in in elements...it looked odd

Apr 23, 2013 14:44:02 #

Crazytooth Loc: Suffolk, UK

Hi Wendy2, yes I would be very interested.

Thanks

Apr 23, 2013 15:25:55 #

Wendy2 Loc: California

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.

Apr 24, 2013 15:37:46 #

Crazytooth Loc: Suffolk, UK

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!

Apr 24, 2013 15:51:01 #

Wendy2 Loc: California

Crazytooth wrote:

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!

That does look better!!

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