@tdekany,
Thank you.

@ tdekany,
Which one is correct? I would like to know. Thanks.

That's a tough situation. Your car is in the shade so you might get some shutter speed variations if you are in matrix metering. It may read that your subject is dark, or it may read the background which is bright sun light. Honestly I think your scene is fooling your camera's meter. You should try moving you your car out of the shadow and try it again. That would be my guess. Or try shooting the car in Spot metering.

I like your work Mr. photoartist

I thought the Mt. Olympus was in Greece?

Nice picks girl...Thank you for sharing your work.

Any idea of how old these glyphs are?

Wow! Cool location! your series' theme seems to be texture of the rock formations.

In high contrast images such as yours, If you use Lightroom, The adjustment brush is your key to Utopia. If you are in Photoshop alone, you should duplicate your background layer- reduce your exposure on the background layer layer then then mask out the wings and you should be OK. In la-la land you could screw around with your camera's settings, but in real life, when you are shooting moving subjects ,you need to make sure your shutter speed is fast enough..that's it. You usually control your shutter-speed with your exposure compensation dial. The rest is up to your processing knowledge.

You have to remember that this image was shot in winter. The cardinal's colors are going to be wasted. Cardinals breed in Spring of which that's when the bird's colors are the most vibrant.

The cardinal looks fine. But I think your image is a little flat. I would try to increase your vibrancy...not saturation. That may bring out your browns. I disagree with you about the reds, they are not blown. That's just the cardinal's real colors. I usually shoot a little warmer in my white balance and in RAW. That way I can adjust my temperature in lightroom or camera raw. But if you want to get your white balance in-camera, you may want to set your camera's white balance to manual, remembering that the lower the kelvin scale the more warmer your image will be. Here is a trick in lightroom to recover your whites in a warmer image. On the adjustment brush, tick on whiten teeth preset and soften your brush edges and paint over your whites.

Here is mine: Fall Still life 02:

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I think your image is good the way it is. Her eyes are sharp and out of shadow. I don't know how many times I see portraits like this and the eyes are in shadow. I think when you take pictures of babies the focus should be a little soft. I think your exposure is right too. The highlights are not blown out and you see detail in the shadows. And you really can't judge your exposure solely on a histogram. Most histograms will show to the left in high contrast images like this one. Why? I don't know. I think your image, technically, is very good.

You can always open your image in Camera RAW and use the adjustment brush on the necks, But I agree with edwinj above.

I forgot to mention. You should shoot the moon at a lower angle in the sky just after it rises or just before it falls. It will appear larger in the sky.

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