Bad Hair Days 12 & 35

Bad Hair Days 12 & 35

The "Frizzies"

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nice shots Bill

Two great shots Bill... Nice shooting.

Two fine photos!

great shots

kmunroe wrote in post #11299176
nice shots Bill

Thanks for the comment, kmunroe.

txcanon wrote in post #11299237
Two great shots Bill... Nice shooting.

Thanks for the comment, Brad.

Diamond Lil wrote in post #11299471
Two fine photos!

Thanks for the comment, Lil.

dgraham329 wrote in post #11300608
great shots

Thanks for the comment, dgraham.

Nicely done Bill.

Flo wrote in post #11300683
Nicely done Bill.

Thank you, Gail.

Great shots, Bill. Love the titles.

Bill, I just love the second image. What a great pose and super job on the exposure. Well done.

jgrussell wrote in post #11309752
Great shots, Bill. Love the titles.

Thank you, Judy. I didn't know if the crowd here is old enough to recognize the Dylan reference in the main title.

Harvey_G wrote in post #11311328
Bill, I just love the second image. What a great pose and super job on the exposure. Well done.

Thank you, Harvey. Maybe I won't toss my gear into the Grand Canyon quite yet.

Exposure with large white birds is definitely a challenge. I tried spot metering and the results varied wildly depending on exactly where the spot was placed. With the exposure system trying to make the egret neutral gray, the rest of the scene was really dark. I used what appeared to be the best image from the scene here, but even then I had to bump up the exposure in post processing and add quite a bit of fill light. I really hate to do that with a high ISO shot because "you know what" happens to the noise. I believe that this one was at ISO 400 which is not too difficult to handle. I had some others at ISO 800 and when they are properly exposed, noise is not a problem, but when underexposed, they are really not very good.