Please — if you’re not too busy, be so kind as to rank your two tops picks<\/em><\/strong> from today’s six featured images and the reason that you chose each of them. <\/p>\n In the As Usual: Striving for Different …<\/em> post here<\/a>, my top choices were Image #2 as I love the strange, head down snake pose. As suggested by several folks, I will eliminate the board. I also liked Image #3 because of the tension that resulted from the look back posture. I also had some love for the blur. As did Tom Redd \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n In the Turkey Vulture Flight Sky Colors<\/em> post here<\/a>, my rankings were #3, 1, and #2. I thought that the sunny morning blue sky image was the strongest by a mile (though I did make a lighter sky version for Chris Loffredo) \ud83d\ude42 I hated #2 because of the phony blue sky. Had I gone white sky with #2, that would have been my second choice. <\/p>\n While Adobe Camera Raw masks enable you to select dreary skies and add some blue to them, I do not, in general, like the results. There are two main reasons:<\/p>\n 1- Since I was there on a cloudy or drizzly day, there is a disconnect — my brain is not willing to accept a blue sky as natural. <\/p>\n 2- You make a mask of the subject and render it perfectly color balanced, aka, neutral. But then when you blue up the sky, the subject appears to have a blue color cast. To see for yourself, scroll down and compare Image #1 with Image #1A and Image #2 with Image #2A. <\/p>\n I know that most folks in the original Turkey Vulture Flight Sky Colors post liked the phony blue sky best as compared to the white sky image, but for the most part, the artificial light blue skies are a big turn-off for me personally. <\/p>\n The very knowledgeable David Pugsley wrote in part: I believe I\u2019d put 2 first, but the overall presentation looks a bit too cool\u2026at least on my device.<\/em> So, even though the bird in Image 2 was perfectly neutral, he was seeing the imaginary blue color cast that I mentioned above. <\/p>\n Note: I love photographing in overcast conditions because of the complete absence of shadows. And when doing flight photography on what I call white sky days, getting wonderful underwing detail does not present a problem. On sunny days, you need to be perfectly on sun angle to avoid underwing shadows and even then, you will likely have to deal with some problematic dark areas. <\/p>\nIn the Last Blog Post<\/h3>\n
In the Blog Post Before That<\/h3>\n
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