>>4334379
>wilsons warbler
Isn't it a Goldfinch?

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Nankeen Kestrel

What's your method for making white skys blue?
tried masking sky in lightroom and fucking with sliders until blue but it affected the subject and gave it chromatic aberration
tried selecting sky in photoshop and just filling with blue but it cuts the very fine edges of feathers off

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>>4334411
photoshop blue example

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>>4334411
Lightroom blue example

Im sure its better to use a gradient but i normally crop in and you can hardly tell if you didnt see the original

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Shot this birb this morning.

1/2

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>>4334414
Aminal frens

2/2

>>4334411
>>4334412
>>4334413

You have no soul.

>>4334418
>noooo you cant just make the sky blue that's cheating!

>>4334419
You can't get the photos you want so have to run crying to your computer. Why not just skip the camera and use AI prompts? Oh, that's right. You want to lie to people because you crave validity even though you can't achieve it.

Your photo is fake.

>>4334423
All photos are fake

>>4334464
No, everyone else is just better than you.

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>>4334411
>What's your method for making white skys blue?
Why would you do this? You're not tricking anyone.
>>4334419
You can, nobody is stopping you, but real question is why?

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>>4334423
>You can't get the photos you want
I cant get the weather i want
>Why not just skip the camera and use AI prompts?
I like going outside, and keeping track of birds ive seen with photos
>You want to lie to people because you crave validity
its not that deep you massive faggot, post a photo

>>4334467
>You're not tricking anyone.
if i didn't post the original you wouldn't notice, how long do you think people actually look at your photo for?
>real question is why?
because it looks better when the background isnt blown out, and makes the subject stand out more

>>4334485
Keep coping, soulless cheating hack loser. Your standards are in the toilet lmao.

>no photo
curious

>i couldn't get the bird i wanted so i just shopped it in
Literally no difference. Soulless hack losers are wrecking these threads.

>>4334488
That bird isn't shopped in...

>>4334413
>>4334412
>>4334411
Nice pics CORY

>>4334511
I haven't been to bird threads in months, but I see the psuedo-purist is still at it. Just ignore his autism lol

>>4334486
Right, but post sharpening and colour rebalancing is fair game right, or are you some self-felating faggot who insists everything is done on film because muh realism

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>Be me
>Red Kite
>Wake up at dawn, hungry as heck
>Do some cool soaring moves, feeling like a boss
>See some stupid humans below, probably looking for Pokemon or something
>Spot a juicy looking rabbit, dive in for breakfast
>Rabbit sees me, runs away, rude af
>Settle for roadkill instead, tastes like disappointment
>Hear some crows cawing, those guys are such jerks
>Swoop over a couple having a picnic, steal a sandwich
>Score! It's ham and cheese, best day ever
>Fly around for a bit, enjoy the wind under my wings
>See another kite, try to impress her with my aerial skills
>She’s not impressed, flies away
>Whatever, she doesn’t know what she’s missing
>Sun starts setting, head back to my roost
>Perch on a high tree, watch the humans with their glowing rectangles
>Wonder what they're up to, probably nothing important
>Fall asleep dreaming of that perfect rabbit that got away
>Life of a Red Kite, 10/10 would soar again

>bird posting & discussion
>op names bird, only talks about gear
>someone asks if its a different bird
>no discussion about bird
/p/ competence levels

>>4334467
>Why would you do this?
same reason you took this shit, blurry photo i guess

>>4334594
>shit, blurry photo
Every photo in this thread?

>>4334596
>.t. blind retard

>>4334597
Show me one that isn't blurry or extremely noisy.

>>4334589
This greentext is very cringe

>>4334485
That type of post processing isn't unheard of, especially in wildlife, most people go the lazy route and just make a black and white photo.

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>>4334603
>REEEEEEE

>>4334621
>another very blurry photo
That's the real meme here

>>4334632
You don't post process your photos? That's part of photography, even in film.

>>4334680
>process
Kek, process your balls off.

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>>4334485
idk, ive dickded around with gimp and matting and then inverting and color balance and didnt work that well.
>>4334594
sooo to jack off?

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>>4334591
I mean, it was a legitimate question in regards to wildlife / bird photos, a tripod is needed, as for the name of the bird, I mislabeled it.

Anyway, I've been trying to go out as much as possible during 'golden hour' in the mornings, which right now starts around 6:40AM EST, and trying to get the light coming in through the trees and creating some good shadows. I found it tends to be a little blown out in exposure tho.

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Posted these in the RPT, meant to post them here

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>>4335358

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>>4335359

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>>4335360

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>>4335362
All of these were taken in Mindo, Ecuador

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>>4335364
I'd imagine taking photos in a jungle is quite difficult. Especially wildlife and birds.

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black throated blue i managed to get a shot of

i need to go through so many goddamn photos

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A bit o' yellow here

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Only posting this here because the thread edition demands it

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my best bird so far

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>>4335517
Spectacular

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finally saw one of these fucking things

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>>4335990
>>4335493
Why do they look so dark?

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Shhh, he's sleeping

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>>4335990
Brilliant.

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>>4335994
a combination of shit lighting, bad exposure settings, and me trying to salvage the shots with some chiaroscuro bullshit attempts in my editing

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Tried calling this cardinal to a tree to get a more natural shot, but he just kept eyeing me. Not a good shot, but liked the pose.
>>4335517
incredible shot. Can't wait for late fall/winter for the eagles to return here. Hoping to catch them fishing and doing their mating/reaffirmation flight stuff.
>>4336072
Cute as hell
>>4336076
you can't fool me, that's pillow stuffing you put on a branch

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>>4335990
Good job, and congrats.

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>>4336400
thanks i really wanna see more of em but they seem pretty rare around me. this was in acadia maine before the crowds woke up

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Yellow Bird (golden whistler)

>enters good lighting
>refuses to look at me

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little bit of yellow on this guy

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This bird did not like the mirror

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Weirdly, lately I've been thinking about aperture priority and auto ISO (APAI) as an ideal bird setup. This is a fix for the conventional manual and auto ISO mode (MAI).
Ideally, bird photography has very fast shutter speeds for complete sharpness. While a shot might look good with 1/2000th, it would also be fine with 1/2500th. Having a completely open aperture is also ideal in these situations to maximize shutter speed. At this point, the only remaining factor is ISO, which should ideally be raised for ETTR and no further.
With MAI, there is a risk here, that you set the shutter speed too slow and one of two things happens. One, you hit base ISO and overexpose. Two, something very quick happens and your shutter speed isn't fast enough. The other, maybe more minor risk is that your shutter speed is too fast and you get a noisy image. To mitigate this, you must keep an eye on where your auto ISO is, and be aware of the potential for your shutter speed to be too low. You adjust shutter speed in either case.
With APAI, you set your minimum shutter speed to be quite high, like 1000, so the camera starts raising ISO at this point. In excess light you'll get more speed instead of overexposing, but when it's lacking your speed will drop without you having to adjust.
Even better though would be a layered setup like the spreadsheet in pic related. This alternates slowing shutter speed and raising ISO. Configuring such a setting would be a pain though and camera developers hate innovation so we'll never get this.
Sorry for writing too much. Does anyone else feel this way? Would help a lot in situations with very dynamic lighting I believe. Being able to focus more on framing and composition is the ideal. Obviously in lower action moments more creative use of modes is ideal.

>>4337432
ISOASS (ISO Auto Sticky Shutter) solved this problem already and is a standard feature on cameras such as the sony a7iii which has magic AF and a max acceptable ISO of 6400

>>4337433
>sticky shutter
wtf how does that work?

>>4337434
you tell the camera "my minimum shutter speed is 1/1000" and set the auto ISO range from base to your max acceptable

the camera will always use the lowest ISO it can if that achieves your minimum shutter speed with your set aperture. if it would underexpose it continuously raises the ISO. if it would overexpose and is at the bottom of the ISO range it raises the shutter speed.

most decent cameras made lately do this actually, but sony lets you put the settings on their plentiful custom buttons

>>4337438
That sounds exactly the same as setting aperture priority and a minimum shutter speed, no? Letting the shutter speed be adjustable on the fly would be a nice bonus though, but it's still a manual setting to monitor and use. The shelved approach as in my pic would be would be nice: >>4337432

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female Paradise Riflebird (the dab dance bird)

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winter wren i think

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>>4335493
Nice picture

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birb

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>>4334411
>What's your method for making white skys blue?

In the first place, I personally avoid taking photos of birds with just the sky as the background, regardless of color. For identification/birding purposes, sure, but artistically, I try to avoid it unless I use it for negative space or if there's something else in the photo that makes up for the blank background.

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Posting some of my recent shots from Bali with blank skies so you guys can shit on me too.

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Mostly doves on perches I thought were interesting.