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nice . would have liked to have seen the whole bird , but nice n clear .
I like the composition. Your focal length was probably too long to show the whole bird I’m guessing, so I like the way you have framed it, space to look into, bill leading into the frame to the eye and feathery bits on the crown not chopped off. The subtle colours in the feathers look really nice and there’s a lovely background blur. The contrast range between the black feathers and white skin on the head has blown the highlights a touch but it might be worth a bit more processing to recover some detail here.
Thanks guys. Had the wrong lens on to get the whole bird in the frame with how close he/she stopped to me so this was the best I could do. Animals are never obliging are they :)
How do you go about fixing blown highlights in areas like you were talking about Goosbanker?
Well done Nicole. A very good shot even if the whole bird couldn’t be included.
I think someone else would explain it better, I’m not the greatest at photoshoppy stuff (or fond of it) but……….First of all, it helps if you shot it RAW not JPEG, if you’re not shooting RAW then it’s a good idea to start. Assuming you did, your RAW converter will probably have a highlights slider or recovery slider that can be used to darken/lighten the highlights and fiddling with this you may be able to darken them down sufficiently to get some detail back. Maybe processing the image twice and combining the two exposures could be used as well. Take the image as is. Then process it again and use the exposure sliders to lower the exposure to see if any detail emerges in the highlights, the rest of the image will look very dark as a result. Then open both images in editing software (PS/Elements, etc.) and place one over the other as layers. Lets say your current image posted here is the top layer, you would then have the darkened image with hopefully some detail in the highlights below it. You could then use the eraser tool with a nice soft edge to erase the white bits with no detail on the top image to reveal the more correctly exposed bits from the image beneath.
Look at the histogram for the image as well, if theres any part of the graph touching the right hand edge then this represents pure whites and no amount of farting around will recover any detail from them. You can check the histogram on the cameras LCD just after taking the shot for a check on the exposure. Any bunching to the left or right represents under and over -exposure respectively, you may then get a chance to compensate and retake the shot. Better to get it right in camera. Defo worth posting this question in the Digital Photography section as there are a lot of knowledgable people here that will tell you what to do 10 times better than my waffle! :D Worth a Google search for “recovering blown highlights” or similar too.
Thanks miki g and thanks for that Goosebanker! I shoot in raw so I shall attempt to try out some of that on the raw image!
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