Comments on: How are Your Eagle Eyes? https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2013/03/12/how-are-your-eagle-eyes/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Sat, 16 Mar 2013 14:09:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2013/03/12/how-are-your-eagle-eyes/comment-page-1/#comment-464105 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:46:58 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=13950#comment-464105 In reply to Jeff Friedhoffer.

The whites on the pelicans are not as bright as the whites on a spoonbill. Yes–I treat the spoonbills as gulls.

If you want to make the blue sky blue and make the best image file, expose to the right for lots of data so that the image looks washed out. Then darken it in Photoshop…..

For spoonbill I will–2+ hours after sunrise on a clear day, meter the light blue sky 30 degrees up from the horizon and add 1/3 stop to that. Always checking the histogram and always checking for blinkies of course.

]]> By: Jeff Friedhoffer https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2013/03/12/how-are-your-eagle-eyes/comment-page-1/#comment-463880 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:13:47 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=13950#comment-463880 Artie
Why did you open the pelican shoot by 1/3 stop from the spoonbill? , when I was at the Staten Island workshop field trip I learned to set the manual exposure at +2 1/3 from the white sky for gulls. Looks like you did the same for the spoonbills. Another question, What is the setting for a blue sky? Thanks
Jeff

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