Fire Starter!

got this yesterday. He just looks so defiant. any suggestions would be appreciated. this is my second time trying to shoot birds.

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I don't know. Looks to me like you got it figured out.

Good shot. Only suggestion would be to tweak white balance warmer if shot in raw and use the raw editor or photoshop's shadow/highlight tool to bring out some more of the black(shadow) detail. A fill flash might have helped.

Here's a edit

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Thank you canonloader

Thank you for the help morehtml. What exactly did you do when you edited it this picture? I am just learning to use cs2.

rebelnotarget wrote in post #2253744
Thank you canonloader

Thank you for the help morehtml. What exactly did you do when you edited it this picture? I am just learning to use cs2.

I was trying to get a little more detail on the front of the bird in the shadows so I went under Image--->adjustments--->Shadow/highlight. You can also play around with curves in the same menu.

Thank you so much for your help morehtml

I really like this photograph. It looks to me like it might me a touch over sharpened. I would also clone out the little piece of yellow grass at the bottom. Nice capture.