Steller Bluejay

3 years 3 months ago #706300 by JennieGee
It took a few days, but I finally got a good shot. Boy, are they skittish, I set up a blind INSIDE the house to be able to get this shot!


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3 years 3 months ago #706339 by Ozzie_Traveller
G'day Jennie

Full marks for your efforts - and they have paid off nicely ... well done

I do not know about the colours as I am not living in any snow-affected areas ~ maybe others can assist here

Hope this helps
Phil from the great land Downunder
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Phil from the great land Downunder
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3 years 3 months ago - 3 years 3 months ago #706349 by db3348
Generally an awesome capture for sharpness & detail .

Don't know if it was deliberate or an oversight :  there's perhaps an excess of blueness .  Possibly due to incorrect white balance setting on camera .  Is the bird actually that colour ,  or  was it your intended "artistic licence" to render it that way ?
And the snow in some areas  appears  excessively blue .  Just sayin' . . .


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3 years 3 months ago #706354 by JennieGee
Yes, the bird is that colour. You can google them. The extra blue in the corners is likely too much vignetting; I was a bit iffy on how much I wanted. There was a lot of blue in the snow.Of course I have him looking as nice as possible, but I haven't changed his colouration. Cutting back on the post crop vignette will likely reduce the blue in the background.
I assume that's what you're suggesting, that the snow is too blue?


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3 years 3 months ago #706359 by JennieGee
Here is another with less vignetting, although there is still some.


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3 years 3 months ago #706361 by db3348
Well I'll be .  Now that you have shown some of the feed in foreground ,  and with less snow , that really does put  the blueness into context .  Good one !


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3 years 3 months ago #706366 by JennieGee
It's tough to show any content in the Instagram format. I should edit a rectangular version.
Thanks for the inspiration!


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3 years 3 months ago #706380 by Nikon Shooter
I'll go with the guy from Oz and support the needed WB correction.

Light is free… capturing it is not!
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3 years 3 months ago #706396 by JennieGee
Ok, I have the WB as shot here but the post cop vignetting was changed to -5. 
Thoughts? 


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3 years 3 months ago #706399 by Nikon Shooter
I could comment on your later effort after seeing the RAW file
and tried to see what could be done. Jennie.

Mais dites-moi, Guidon… c'est un nom francophone, non?

Light is free… capturing it is not!
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3 years 3 months ago #706406 by JennieGee
Yes, Guindon is a French name but it is my married name so I had to run the phrase through Google translate to make sure that's what you were asking. My husband is from a French-Canadian background but he doesn't speak French as his parents moved here to BC, and French immersion schools weren't a thing here until 5 or 6 years after he started school. His brother went and his Dad speaks French as he was raised speaking it.
I wish I knew more than one language. I can read a bit of French but that's because it's on everything you buy in Canada as a bilingual country.


Ok, now on to the photos I have made a jpeg of the original raw file. As you can see it was heavily cropped on a very gray day.

The second photo is also a jpeg of a raw file from today, as you can see the snow is nearly gone. I have included it to give you an idea of the bird's colours as the first photo is too dark to see the colouring. I haven't even put this one through lightroom to add a watermark, nothing has been done to either of these files other than saving them as jpegs. (and the one watermark).
I am interested in what you think. I'm a baby photographer :)


Today


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3 years 3 months ago #706412 by Shadowfixer1
I think the first one is underexposed by about a half stop. I think that is more of an issue than the WB. The vignette just exacerbated the issue. 
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