[LRflex] Re: IMG: White-rumped Shama (repost)
- From: David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:54:18 -0800
At 12/23/2009, you wrote:
Last winter I photographed a White-rumped Shama in very poor
lighting conditions; much like the Western Bluebird re-posted a week
or so ago, the light on the Shama was heavily filtered / colored by
overhead foliage making good color balance tricky at best: good
color balance on the bird resulted in drab foliage, and good
foliage color turned the bird a sickly green.
For this lighting condition I've created two separate Curves
adjustment layers, one for the foliage and one for the bird,
creating a mask for each layer corresponding to its intended target.
Here's the result for the Shama:
(previous) http://www.wildlightphoto.com/temp/wrsh00.jpg
(revised) http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/turdidae/wrsh00.jpg
All comments are welcome.
HI Doug!
Charlie's old NEC monitor is just fine... on my calibrated monitor,
the body of the bird is darker - to the point where it has lost
detail. I agree with Charlie, however, that the body is better
darker ... just not quite that much darker.
The background is a vast improvement! However, I wonder ... are the
bird's feet really that reddish purple? To me, that looks an
un-natural shade ... but then, I don't know the bird and I wasn't there.
I'm looking forward to v3.0. :-)
Cheers!
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David Young
Logan Lake, Canada.
Wildlife Photos: www.furnfeather.net
Personal Website: www.main.furnfeather.net
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