Snacking

[Mickwreay]

A few very obliging birds from Houseteads Roman Fort

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Thanks for looking.

Mick

 

[Mickwreay]

Not even a little C&C :shrug:

Mick

 

[Gonetae]

Hi MIck, you have some promising shots there, but in all of them the bird itself is a bit underexposed creating a rather dark main subject. With the robin and the blue tit you have caught some nice poses but just need some major brighting up to make the subject pop a bit.

have added a (very quick) edit of the blue tit as anexample of what a wee bit of processing can bring out, ye can prolly do a lot more with your original files.

if you'd rather I remove the edit just yell and it's gone.

 

[Mickwreay]

Thanks Gonetea,

My PP skills are way behind my photography skills (sounds wrong) but you know what I mean

You edit is much better, did you use curves for it?

Mick

 

[Gonetae]

I just upped the exposure as a whole and then used the Shadow/Highlight tool in CS4 to pull back the snow and brighten the bird

 

[Mickwreay]

Thanks mate, I'll have a play & re-post

Mick

 

[nelg]

Hi Mick,

Try a little exposure compensation next time +⅓ +⅔ the metering is exposing for the brightness of the snow, will also save having to PP if you shoot jpg.

 

[lost]

Well done on getting out and about in this weather i think Gonetae and nelg have covered the main points i feel the composition is good but i think they all could stand a touch of sharpening after the exposure is tweaked
Regards
Richard