Comments on: Juvie Sanderling: Capture, Clean-up and Cropping Lessons https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2011/08/27/juvie-sanderling-capture-clean-up-and-cropping-lessons-2/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:19:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 By: Robert Kaplan https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2011/08/27/juvie-sanderling-capture-clean-up-and-cropping-lessons-2/comment-page-1/#comment-95526 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:19:18 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=6580#comment-95526 Thanks Artie. I know I can always learn something from your blog and site. Your datailed explanations of exposure and post-processing are very helpful. I made it to Nickerson on 9/9. Skimmers were gone but saw many Sanderlings you shot.

Hey Robert, I do think that the skimmers left earlier than usual this year because of the hurricane. That said, I have never been there in SEPT before; it’s just my gut feeling. artie

]]> By: EB https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2011/08/27/juvie-sanderling-capture-clean-up-and-cropping-lessons-2/comment-page-1/#comment-94048 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:12:20 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=6580#comment-94048 The image seems rather unnatural to me due to the excessive cleaning. May be it was worth to leave some of the reflections?

Obviously it was worth it to me to do the clean-up. Assuming that you are talking about bill shine rather than “reflections” I would say that had the bird turned its head maybe 1/2 of 1 degree more toward me all bill shine would have been eliminated. I have thousands of shorebird image where the bird’s bill is wet but there is zero bill shine. Some folks like bill shine I do not. One man’s “excessive” is another’s perfection. artie

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