Red Bird, Horse, Loch Lomond C/C

[Chris399]

I am still learning and reading quite a bit. So please advise the good, bad, and ugly.

Red Bird in Oak Tree (D90, Nikon 70-300)

Horse Under Tree (D700 Nikon 24-70)

Loch Lomond (D90 Tokina 11-16)

I see the following in each shot but need help in how to fix - Would like to get it right in the camera the first time.

Red Bird - very hard to distinguish between the red of the feathers and the orange of the beak.

Horse - Quite a bit of the green is reflected in the Horses white hide

Loch Lomond - very overcast day and flat light. Not a lot of depth to the photo.

All comments welcome and thanks for the help.

Chris

 

[Bouke]

Love the perspectives, good composition. Number 2 has some blown out highlights that are a little distracting, but with the dark shadow under the tree it's unavoidable without HDR.

 

[invisible]

Love the perspectives, good composition. Number 2 has some blown out highlights that are a little distracting, but with the dark shadow under the tree it's unavoidable without HDR.

I agree with the above and suggest a B&W conversion for #2 (I'd do it myself, but your profile says you don't allow edits of your images.)

 

[Chris399]

Bourke - Thanks for the reply - as you can problavy tell the blown out portion was were the sun was coming through the tree. I really don't do any post processing other than light sharpening and cropping so HDR is really out of my current scope.

Invisible - as above really don;t do too much processing - Please post a B/W would love to see one that is done well.

Any suggestions on how, in the camera, I could have imporved these shots?

Thanks for the feedback.

Chris

 

[invisible]

Invisible - as above really don;t do too much processing - Please post a B/W would love to see one that is done well.

That's too much pressure

Here's two different B&W edits, both very quick jobs.

While the background is still overexposed, I think B&W can be more forgiving than colour.