Snowy Egret showing golden tootsies in flight and wading

Arnie

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Excellent series Arnold, well worth looking at original size on my photo editing monitor.

Beautiful, great pictures!

Hi Arnie,

Nice action. You might want to make them a bit brighter. Good sharpness.

Morris

Foxjet said:

Excellent series Arnold, well worth looking at original size on my photo editing monitor.

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Thank you Richard. Funny that you should say that ... Having edited these, and a few similar ones, over the past several days, on a 2K monitor, I happen to have just set up a new 4k monitor, and if I may say so, myself, noticed an astonishing improvement.

Arnie

Chuvarsky said:

Beautiful, great pictures!

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Thank you, **** ... glad you like them.

Arnie

Morris0 said:

Hi Arnie,

Nice action. You might want to make them a bit brighter. Good sharpness.

Morris

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Thank you Morris ... you mean the backgrounds in a couple of them, right?











My intended emphasis was for the "golden" attributes on the bird to stand out, but, I lightened shadows in these three ... better? Feel free to edit and post.

It's beneficial to discuss style and preference, as well.

Arnie

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arniebook said:

Morris0 said:

Hi Arnie,

Nice action. You might want to make them a bit brighter. Good sharpness.

Morris

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Thank you Morris ... you mean the backgrounds in a couple of them, right?

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Hi Arnie,

No. The whites are gray in all of them resulting in the backgrounds also being dark.

Morris

arniebook said:

My intended emphasis was for the "golden" attributes on the bird to stand out, but, I lightened shadows in these three ... better? Feel free to edit and post.

It's beneficial to discuss style and preference, as well.

Arnie

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Hi Morris,

Hmmm … I do see a minor brightness difference between the offline files on my new 4k monitor, and the online images on DPR. I don’t see gray, on the offline images, except on the undersides, and less bright areas. Otherwise they are white, (at least to my 80 something year old eyes) and increasing overall brightness wipes out feather detail.

There is something else I noticed that I find interesting. The water in this pond is a muddy brown color, and is reflected, to some degree, on the birds … but we, and the camera, from the opposite bank, see what appears to be green water, but that is the reflection from the morning sunlit, grassy hillside.



I am on the opposite bank, so when I look down I see brown, but when I look across the pond, I see green, though the water is actually brown there also.

This Tricolored Heron is on my side of the pond, the day before, in mid-afternoon light. You can clearly see the natural brown reflection on its white underbelly.



The high sun in this photo of a Snowy, makes the water look blue from my standpoint, but, again, the actual muddy brown, color is reflected on the bird.



We havin' fun yet?

Arnie

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What we spend on this stuff is equal to the depth of our pockets squared ($²) times what we (j)ustify in our minds as to what we expect to do with our pictures plus (+) the (e)njoyment we experience from using our stuff and sharing the result ... $xxxx=$²(j+e )

Take a look at your histogram. 89 year old yes or whatever you should see the gap on the right side.





Move the levels tool to fill in the gap on the right and you will get a white great egret :-}

Morris

arniebook said:

Hi Morris,

Hmmm … I do see a minor brightness difference between the offline files on my new 4k monitor, and the online images on DPR. I don’t see gray, on the offline images, except on the undersides, and less bright areas. Otherwise they are white, (at least to my 80 something year old eyes) and increasing overall brightness wipes out feather detail.

There is something else I noticed that I find interesting. The water in this pond is a muddy brown color, and is reflected, to some degree, on the birds … but we, and the camera, from the opposite bank, see what appears to be green water, but that is the reflection from the morning sunlit, grassy hillside.



I am on the opposite bank, so when I look down I see brown, but when I look across the pond, I see green, though the water is actually brown there also.

This Tricolored Heron is on my side of the pond, the day before, in mid-afternoon light. You can clearly see the natural brown reflection on its white underbelly.



The high sun in this photo of a Snowy, makes the water look blue from my standpoint, but, again, the actual muddy brown, color is reflected on the bird.



We havin' fun yet?

Arnie

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Thanks, Morris. I'm appreciative of your helpful comments, and will work on that tomorrow ... (past my bedtime).

Arnie