The look - Osprey

Very nice position; excellent sharpness; great exposure.

Well done.

Osprey looks good and sharp nice flight shot. On my monitor the color of the sky does look quite right and there are some funny blue colors in the upper part of the far wing

I understand Scott, I tried everything to do something with the sky. Nothing worked to my satisfaction, so I just left it. It basically has a grey tinge to it. I could have desaturated the blues up in the wing, but it was there in raw so I left it. No amount of white balance or hue adjustment would change the sky to what I felt was suitable. I even tried painting it in there with a luminance layer in photoshop and that worked ok, but it still felt fake and "perfect". So I figured the best thing to do was just leave it how the camera set it. Auto-WB. I've included my luminance painted layer just to show the fake feel I felt it brought in. The only thing I did to this image was crop to 95% of the total image and bring out some shadow detail, then sharpen. That was it.

Awesome pose, light and detail.

Great flight pose, Geoff. Those blue patches in the far wing are wierd-can't figure out what would cause that.

Re-post is excellent - wonderful pose, fine detail, and nice BG,
While it's always tempting to crop very tightly with an image like this, it feels a bit too tight to me. I'd personally leave a lot more room on the bottom and right. As is, very centered.
Sandy

Flight pose is nice, details are nicely captured as well. As noted (and mostly corrected in your repost) helps a lot. I took the larger image, dropped it into Photoshop, used a Threshold adjustment layer to find the whitest and blackest points, then used a curves adjustment layer to set the black/white points. Reducing the overall opacity of that layer seemed to generate colors that solved the odd sky color. Happy to share that if you are interested.

edit: Just noticed that the larger version did not have an embedded color profile. That will create even bigger issues getting any consistency in viewing based on individual web browsers.

Thanks Keith,

A slight S curve with a curves adjustment layer does fix the sky color, but it loses a bit of detail in the breast and back wing area. I don't have any experience with a threshold layer adjustment so if you could either post the PSD file so I could take a peak at what you did and learn from that would be fantastic. If not, perhaps you have a source where I could read up on it.

Many thanks,
Geoff

Beautiful flight capture!!

Geoff. I like it a lot. The wing position, underwing light and overall pose. Very nice indeed.

Awesome flight capture Geoff. Great wing position and details.

Ken Archer