Exactly right, Brian. The light was behind and to my right. Really just a silhouette with the faintest dark red tint on the wings. Had to pull the red up out of the black. I worked with shadow color curves and finally, the dodge tool to get anything. I plan to check it out in a couple days (after the rain passes) 'prox mid afternoon when light will be at my back.
Thanks for commenting. Jack --- On Mon, 4/26/10, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Brian Walters <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: PESO: Red Wing BBird > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, April 26, 2010, 4:12 PM > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:32 -0700, > "Jack Davis" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > This AM I was driving along a country road lined with > wild mustard and > > blooming thistles, when I noticed it was almost > infested with Red Wing > > Black Birds. > > Lucky to run across it, but they are very skittish and > the wind wasn't > > making it any easier. > > Caught a couple that will, at least, work for spring > wallpaper. > > Love their song. > > > Excellent! That's a beautiful bird and the framing > with the flowers > works really well here. > > I wish there was a bit more detail in the bird's plumage > but black birds > are a bugger to photograph. I was going though my > archives on the > weekend looking for something to post and came across a > Black > Oystercatcher on a beach. Similar situation - there > just wasn't any > detail in the feathers. > > > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > -- > > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups > email service > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
