Comments on: Finding the Cleanest Slot… https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2014/07/07/finding-the-cleanest-slot/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Tue, 08 Jul 2014 05:57:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 By: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2014/07/07/finding-the-cleanest-slot/comment-page-1/#comment-1327953 Tue, 08 Jul 2014 05:57:59 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=21188#comment-1327953 In reply to Kevin Hice.

Thanks Kevin. Good job and good question. That was the rear half of a Black-headed Gull in the ULC. As for the whitish feathers, that was a close call. Denise would have left them for sure. For me, the images is prettier without them. And there are lots of birds of this species without any whitish feathers on their chocolate brown hoods.

]]> By: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2014/07/07/finding-the-cleanest-slot/comment-page-1/#comment-1327944 Tue, 08 Jul 2014 05:52:21 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=21188#comment-1327944 In reply to Gary Axten.

Thanks. And yes, the color balance in the optimized image is pretty much perfect.

The second image is a JPEG that represents the unsharpened original. In addition, I ran a layer of my NIK 50/50 preset on the birds in the optimized image and lightened them as well.

Learn all about color balance, color casts, NIK, and tons more in Digital Basics.

Great seeing you out there. artie

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