Posted by Niall Riddell on January 12, 2007 at 4:22 PM
Hi Guys,
I posted here about a year ago asking for advice about flamingo photography in South America. I did promise some pictures so here is something I captured whilst out there.
Two Andean flamingos squabbling over drinking rites. The Andean is classified as vulnerable by IUCN but I was incredibly lucky and saw a large number of them. More info and images can be found at www.projectflamingo.co.uk
Many thanks for your advice and help,
Niall
PS The leg ring is part of a monitoring programme being carried out in Chile
The image is looking too soft on my screen and there are what looks to be blown whites?
Also appears to be a strong colour cast over the image?
Do you have any exif for the shot?
Regards
Posted by Graham Bailey on January 13, 2007 at 1:33 PM
Hi Niall,
Good to see you posting again. It does seem a bit soft but i think this might be due to the compression. What JPEG quality level did you save it as?. Other than that a lovely behaviour shot
Must be the first wild flamingo's we've had on the European forum .
There appears to be a very strong Magenta colour cast to this and a lot of your other shots on the website - especially where these lakes and/or flamingos are present. Looking back to the photos that you took on a different trip, the colours seem to be more 'natural' in the earlier shots.
I've tried to adjust the shot so that it appears a bit more neutrally coloured to my eye. As I've never been to Chile, have never seen a wild flamingo - and as there isn't much to go on regarding black, white and grey points - I might have the colours totally off. If I have then accept my apologies! I first tried to neutralise the black and white colours (beak, plumage and leg ring), but then resorted to visually adjusting using the Colour Balance option in Photoshop, tweaking the magenta/green balance more to the green side.
Did you shoot using the camera on Auto White Balance or set to one of the fixed White balance settings?
Posted by Niall Riddell on January 17, 2007 at 5:38 PM
Discussion
4 repliesI posted here about a year ago asking for advice about flamingo photography in South America. I did promise some pictures so here is something I captured whilst out there.
Two Andean flamingos squabbling over drinking rites. The Andean is classified as vulnerable by IUCN but I was incredibly lucky and saw a large number of them. More info and images can be found at www.projectflamingo.co.uk
Many thanks for your advice and help,
Niall
PS The leg ring is part of a monitoring programme being carried out in Chile
720 pixels along the longest side - the Mods
The image is looking too soft on my screen and there are what looks to be blown whites?
Also appears to be a strong colour cast over the image?
Do you have any exif for the shot?
Regards
Good to see you posting again. It does seem a bit soft but i think this might be due to the compression. What JPEG quality level did you save it as?. Other than that a lovely behaviour shot
Graham
Must be the first wild flamingo's we've had on the European forum
There appears to be a very strong Magenta colour cast to this and a lot of your other shots on the website - especially where these lakes and/or flamingos are present. Looking back to the photos that you took on a different trip, the colours seem to be more 'natural' in the earlier shots.
I've tried to adjust the shot so that it appears a bit more neutrally coloured to my eye. As I've never been to Chile, have never seen a wild flamingo - and as there isn't much to go on regarding black, white and grey points - I might have the colours totally off. If I have then accept my apologies! I first tried to neutralise the black and white colours (beak, plumage and leg ring), but then resorted to visually adjusting using the Colour Balance option in Photoshop, tweaking the magenta/green balance more to the green side.
Did you shoot using the camera on Auto White Balance or set to one of the fixed White balance settings?
Sorry - this was shot on film!
I think I need to calibrate my monitor!
Niall