White on Blue

[Randy Rimland]

D300 + 300mm + 1.4 TC
f/7.1,1/2000,iso400

http://www.carolina-sportsphotography.com/photos/i-8RpwvDB/0/XL/i-8RpwvDB-XL.jpg

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Randy,
Well....I really like the pose you have captured.....I do think the sun/time of day was working against you here though. You may try and reporisees this one to get more detail in the whites.......these are tough when the sunny 16 rule comes into play. If you had this pose in better light......it would be off the charts! You had a really nice specimen too!

[Randy Stout]

Randy:

A handsome bird,I like the composition.
The sky seems a bit oversaturated on my monitor.

Agree with Roman about the whites, but you certainly could try a selection of the whites and use either a multiply or linear burn mode to try and tease out a bit more detail. It looks like it is in there!

Cheers

Randy

[Peter Farrell]

Pretty good detail under harsh light conditions. I agree that the sky looks over saturated.
Nice pose and composotion.
Peter

[Daniel Cadieux]

The whites look OK from my end, but I agree the sky colour is too intense. Nice comp, and yes that is a beautiful individual!

Roman, I imagine "reporisees" really means "reprocess"?:bg3:

[Dumay de Boulle]

Whites look fine to me...Good IQ and sky is very blue but some times that is the color...I have had the same experience with skies on several occasions... Nice one