Bluebird +original image.

Gallery: AvianPosted December 10, 2013171 views6 comments

Taken in Central Illinois in early February. Never expected to see bluebirds in February. There was 8-12 birds in the flock and then seemed to pose for us.

Canon PS SX50
1/160 @ F-5.6 ISO400
Canon 4.3-215 @ 168mm

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by Keith Bauer on December 10, 2013 at 12:21 PM

Hi John: While a lovely setting and a nice bird, something has gone terribly wrong with processing. The top of the head seems to be completely blurred and very little plumage detail is evident in the bird. Was some very heavy dose of noise reduction applied?

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Comment posted by John Robinson on December 10, 2013 at 12:34 PM

Lovely ! Brings Walt Disney to mind.
Cheers
JR

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Comment posted by Hans Overduin on December 10, 2013 at 1:34 PM

Nice species and pose, but what happened to the head ? A hat ? Greetings, Hans

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Comment posted by John Tobias on December 10, 2013 at 4:07 PM

Apparently this was my attempt to fix the overblown areas on the birds head. Have included the original after converting from RAW to jpeg. There really is nothing there to darken the area, so I tried to clone in some color. Since I have yet to figure out how to use layers I should have selected another image. Any comments on how to fix this image will be welcome. Thanks for your comments.

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Comment posted by Robert Bunch on December 10, 2013 at 6:07 PM

Nice pose, perch, BG and a really beautiful bird and I also like the backlighting except for the blown highlights. Maybe you can try to process again and get better results.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on December 10, 2013 at 10:03 PM

Hi John: Unfortunately, when they're that blown it's pretty much impossible, at least at my skill level, to fix them unless you do something drastic, like clone over the blown area with an unblown zone-even that would be difficult to make look right. I have used that technique for covering where a twig crosses a bird, but don't like it very well because I'm never positive what really was behind that twig. We get Bluebirds that try to overwinter here (successfully,if it's a mild winter) but we also had a large die-off one year when we got 2-3 feet of snow that covered their food sources.

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