Red-footed Booby

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BAL Land

BAL Land

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Critiques appreciated!
Canon 70d, sigma 150-600mm C lens, 1/2000 at f/7.1, ISO 250. At 283mm, handheld from a boat. Image downsized for posting.
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Nice in-flight capture - I like the angle of the bird. I'm not a big fan of plain blue backgrounds - but there isn't much you can do about that - possibly bump up the dehaze on just the background to bring out some of the cloud texture but I'm not sure there is much there to work with. Another question - did you darken the sky? It almost looks like the edges of the bird are a bit darker than they should be. Maybe its all natural, but it reminds me of when I try to adjust the exposure of the sky and select a few too many pixels of the subject.

Overall I do like it - I saw plenty of boobies in the Galapagos, but didn't come back with a nice BIF photo of one - so nicely done!
 
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BAL Land said:
All I does was:

Darken the blacks a substantial amount using the blacks slider, and put the dehaze sider to +10. I also increased vibrance and decreased the overall exposure by 1/3 stop(about).
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dupcak said:
Nice in-flight capture - I like the angle of the bird. I'm not a big fan of plain blue backgrounds - but there isn't much you can do about that - possibly bump up the dehaze on just the background to bring out some of the cloud texture but I'm not sure there is much there to work with. Another question - did you darken the sky? It almost looks like the edges of the bird are a bit darker than they should be. Maybe its all natural, but it reminds me of when I try to adjust the exposure of the sky and select a few too many pixels of the subject.

Overall I do like it - I saw plenty of boobies in the Galapagos, but didn't come back with a nice BIF photo of one - so nicely done!
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Thank you!! I did darken down the sky a little, but not much. I’ll see if I have time to play around with that. And regarding the color of the BG, there was nothing I could do about it here, when your 10 miles from any land and the bird is on in the water or at the same level as the very distant land.
 
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