Great Egret

[RossW]

Taken at the local lagoon but I need your help people. I use ACR and PS and would like to know how to reduce that "blue" along the leading edge of the wings please.

Canon 70D
Sigma 150-500 @ 500
F7.1
1/3200
ISO 400

[RossW]

Sorry typo "Egret"

[Grumpy John]

I can fix that for you.

[Grumpy John]

Cracking shot Ross.
Re the blue you mention I don't think it is CA (chromatic aberration)But you could try adjusting for that in ACR.

[RossW]

Thanks John. It's not the best photo tried as you said but made very little difference.

[Isac]

To fix the blue, open in Camera Raw: In HSL Adjustment, drop the Blues and Aquas to -100%. Works perfectly.

[Toddyh]

That's a nice capture Ross. The blue to me looks like you have tried to lift the shadows and ended up changing the colour. Is that what happened?
You can always just desaturate the blue and see if that helps.

[avkomp]

nice wing position but looks quite hot and lacking details in the plumage. looks to have been shot cross light, so likely shadows on wing leading edges.
best angle for flying birds is with them flying towards the light and with you with the sun behind.
that way you get all areas of white with the same light falling on them.

[RossW]

Thanks Stephen. It was shot cross light. I went out to the Pitt Town Lagoon about 10:30 (too cold to go earlier) & was shooting from a National Parks built hide so the direction I was shooting was limited. Birds were very scarce so just had to take what I could get.

[avkomp]

The hide at Pitt town isn't well situated for photography. Lake belvedere at homebush is good in the arvo. From viewing platform. Even better in nw wind

[RossW]

Thanks for that, I will have to check it out

[avkomp]

Best place in Syd for flight work. Some recent hi rise buildings may make it less so

[Isac]

That way works well if yo have a JPG in PS but if you have the raw file you have more control in Camera Raw with the HSL Adjustment as I mentioned above

[Gaz]

A good eye-level shot.

There are so many different ways to approach things in PS so I'll just add my preferred method to help confuse


Add a hue saturation adjustment layer



Make sure the 'Auto-select Target Adjustment Tool' box is checked



Move the 'Eye Dropper' to the affected area then click and slide to the left

Hope this makes sense (had a late night)


Cheers

[RossW]

Thanks Gaz. So much to learn

[Isac]

Easy fix: Open in Camera Raw (you can open JPG files in RAW) and select HSL/Grayscale then slide the BLUE to -100% I did this in CS6. Works the same in CC.