Thank You Linda

wish you luck. !000's of shots, a few actually good. Typical.

inadvertently called this bird, #3 a Crane. Sorry guys. Yellow Billed Stork.

Thanks!

will play with that and see how it looks. thanks

These are a few I took in Kenya last summer. Never rush to publish I say, so a year is long enough. Critiques?

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You have done what I have so far been unable to do. A dismal failure would be a better word for my efforts. Congrats!

Sharp shot but what did you say to get the bugger to sit still?
Stand still of I'll get the swatter?

Thanks. I will be back to that garden soon and will set bracketing. In reality, I altered the ISO and the mode of focus from spot to center etc. I got so frustrated that bracketing didn't really cross my mind at the time. I know I was on shutter priority a these critters don't' sit still too long.

Will repost hopefully some better ones.

David

Butterfly at the local garden. Some have strong contrast. The attached photo is a species with a lot of black and the wing tips are a beautiful yellow. Regardless of the ISO, F stop, stop up or down, spot focus, center weighted....I tried them all. The yellow still comes out as white. Not cleaned up anything yet as far as dust, and other compensations I can make in PS, and I know I can blend in a yellow in PS, but I would feel better if I could actually take the shot as it appears. I am open to any advice.

As an aside, the same butterfly when landed on a white surface, photographed more accurately. Second pic with the wing tips yellow.

The real exposure should be between these two but the point is, once it landed on the white railing all the colors show. On the green plants, the yellow was impossible. I actually have about 50 shots of it with various exposures before I got frustrated and quit.

Great shot. And the wren is in really sharp focus.

I have a very old ver of lightroom I never learned how to use. Also an old photoshop as well as the rental Adobe photoshop cc. I have to trash my hard drive and do not have the lic for the photoshop and phtoshop CC is a costly rental ( over time).

I am fair in photoshop, but not great. I am wondering between continueing photoshop cc, getting photoshop elements and paintshop pro ultimate....i know the best program is the one I can use well...but...any suggestions?

Thanks
David

Thanks for the chuckle.

I use Photoshop CC. Not because I'm an expert but because I have learned to make it do what I need. On the other hand, I tried Lightroom and couldn't even figure out how to load a RAW image. I finally did, but have no idea how . LOL. Probably should learn.

Loved your comparison.

With my canon 80D crop factor that is basically what I had in my tamron 18 to 400. Worked well

Some of mine with Canon 80D and Tamron 18-400. This was Kenya

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