Thanks to Frank, Jack, Ann, Eric, and Rick for the comments (and to all who looked). Rick, I understand your initial misgivings but it didn't take me long to realize that adjusting the levels for full contrast did NOT match the light I was seeing that morning. In composing the shot I was purposely hoping to get both herons looking in the right direction so that BOTH of their heads were catching the first rays of sunlight. It was still very very early and lightening the whole scene (for example, to make a more attention getting thumbnail) was something I had to choose to avoid.
Frankly, my biggest concern was leaving the diagonal weed over the Heron's heads that was catching the light. I can't help but think it might be less of a distraction if I got rid of it... but it was there. On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow, Darren, that's lovely. At first I didn't like the low-key rendering, but > it has grown on me. > > There even appears to be fog on the riverbank--wouldn't be one of yours > without some sort of cloud somewhere! > > Rick > > On Oct 13, 2015, at 5:48 PM, Darren Addy wrote: > >> Had a fun day on Sunday birding with my sister, starting before dawn >> making our way to a blind on the Platte River with a guide who is an >> engineer for Ducks Unlimited. Wasn't sure if we'd see much but it was >> a fun day with a lot of different birds (captured with varying degrees >> of success). >> >> I think this is going to be my favorite shot from the day: >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/22153959301/ >> >> Comments and criticism welcome in equal measure. >> >> -- >> Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. >> >> -- >> 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. > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > > > -- > 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. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- 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.
