Birds from Caylabne Bay

[mantarey]

Here's sharing some of my captures from a sortie last weekend in Ternate.

Balicassiao (Dicrurus balicassius) EOS50D+ EF500, f7.1, 1/160, Manual Exposure, Handheld


White-breasted Woodswallow (Artamus leucorynchus) EOS50D+ EF500, f6.3, 1/320, Manual Exposure, Handheld


Asian Glossy Starling (Aplonis panayensis) EOS50D+ EF500, f7.1, 1/400, Manual Exposure, Handheld

[Dennis Alfaro]

These are awesome pictures Rey!

[tina mallari]

Wonderful captures Rey

[Toto Gamboa]

beautiful shots once again Rey! I love the woodswallow. I've been wanting to capture this bird in a beautiful perch like this one

[Tonji Ramos]

Good job on these Rey. Great BG on all the shots. Very good job on exposing the black birds in the bright light!

[Jun Osano]

Wow! Handheld! Great shots Rey. I love the WBWS shot.

[mantarey]

Thanks a lot for the nice comments folks.

[Mark Itol]

Fantastic set, Rey. Lovely lighting and melted BG on the balicassiao and the nice surroundings around the starling help make the bird look less "scary."

[Lydia Robledo]

Great shots, Rey. I'd like to ask for a copy of the AGS feeding on the camachile to add to my compilation of fruting trees that feed the wildlife. Thanks, Rey. telyds

[Romy Ocon]

All very nice, Rey! The last one rocks as a dynamic composition. I've not been to Caylabne in a while, these captures remind me that I should make a visit soon.

BTW, the white breast of the WBWS has a distinct "cool cast" on my LCD.

[gabriel buluran]

Great shots Rey! The starling still looks scary to me though!

[Ely Teehankee]

With the ways the bird numbers are dwindling, we should be happy with whatever birds we can capture with our cameras and lenses. What we can do is try to improve on our previous captures which you have done with these captures. Well done Rey. Mabuhay.

[mantarey]

Thanks a lot Mark, Telyds, Mastah, Gabs and Ely for the kind words.

@telyds,
I'll be glad to give you one.

@mastah Romy
Thanks for the heads-up, I don't know what happened with my worflow. Anyway here's a repost, pushed back the Blue Channels in levels and did another round of slight sharpenning.

[Elvin Sansona]

Wow beautiful shots! Congrats

[mantarey]

Thanks Elvin.

[Romy Ocon]

This new version looks much better WB-wise, Rey.... great job in removing the cast!

I actually downloaded you original version before and found out that the lighting was really tough to balance. If I WB for the sunlit whites, the whites in the shadows are too cold. If I WB for the shadowed whites, the sunlit ones become too warm. My approach would be to WB on the white zone that's in transition from sunlit to shadows, and that roughly results into what you've done.

To illustrate the tough white balancing challenge of whites in mixed lighting, here's an Intermediate Egret I posted earlier in another thread. Check out the small shadow made by the neck at the base of the farther wing. In my first version, the whites are as what appear now, but that small shadow has turned bluish! I couldn't find a global "compromise WB" that looks well. So I returned to the original version, selected the small shadow area, and just reduced the blue on that channel to make the shadow close to neutral gray.

Feb 18, 2010 3:23:20 GMT @mantarey said:

@mastah Romy
Thanks for the heads-up, I don't know what happened with my worflow. Anyway here's a repost, pushed back the Blue Channels in levels and did another round of slight sharpenning.

[mantarey]

Thanks a lot for sharing one of your PP techniques Mastah Romy, another good lesson for the rest of us.