Every so often I will find a chance to show off the beauty in feather patterns.
This dove would have been just a blah image of a bird sitting facing away but, the feather patterns just begged to be brought out by a bit of processing.
So I took a frame while the light was right for the patterns to show and because the bird was backlite I used fill flash so it didn't go almost black. The feather patterns were still there since the fill flash was not powerful enough to totally overcome the warm natural afternoon light. This light also brought out the underling brown tones.
In some light the predominant grays come out with blue tones. I backed off the zoom to 500 because the bird was acting like it was about to take off and I wanted the spread wings totally in the frame. But it settled down and did not take off so I cropped in tight for the patterns.
I think it came out pretty good.
80D, Tamron 150-600 G2 @ 500, 1/250 @4/6.3, ISO-400
off a tripod with fill flash
Beautiful capture that does everything you expected it to do.
A lovely shot, Jerry! I love the feather pattern and the warm, earthy colors!
Dixiegirl wrote:
A lovely shot, Jerry! I love the feather pattern and the warm, earthy colors!
Thanks very much. The Eurasian Collared Doves I get appear to be shades of gray on first glance but the quality of light hitting them can give them these warm brownish tones or turn them towards blue.
Robert
composition is excellent the sepia effect is
Effective no pun intended well done
chuck
Chuckwal wrote:
Robert
composition is excellent the sepia effect is
Effective no pun intended well done
chuck
Thank you.
Actually this shot is full color and the warm tones are from the setting sun. The plain background is a heavy haze in the sky. The roof of the playhouse/fort over the old swing set is weathered wood (gray) and a few remnants of peeling white paint
CLF
Loc: Raleigh, NC
robertjerl wrote:
Every so often I will find a chance to show off the beauty in feather patterns.
This dove would have been just a blah image of a bird sitting facing away but, the feather patterns just begged to be brought out by a bit of processing.
So I took a frame while the light was right for the patterns to show and because the bird was backlite I used fill flash so it didn't go almost black. The feather patterns were still there since the fill flash was not powerful enough to totally overcome the warm natural afternoon light. This light also brought out the underling brown tones.
In some light the predominant grays come out with blue tones. I backed off the zoom to 500 because the bird was acting like it was about to take off and I wanted the spread wings totally in the frame. But it settled down and did not take off so I cropped in tight for the patterns.
I think it came out pretty good.
80D, Tamron 150-600 G2 @ 500, 1/250 @4/6.3, ISO-400
off a tripod with fill flash
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Robert, fantastic example of what the feathers can look like.
Greg
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