Just Pidgeons

[AlfandBen]

I was hoping the Kites would be about this evening but there were only Pidgeons feeding on the new Ash tree growth. Another long shot and heavy crop.

Seems a bit brighter on the forum than it did in Faststone editor.

[Isac]

Bit of a different shot, I like it. If Faststone showed it darker, perhaps your monitor may need some tweaking? What monitor do you have?

[David_MC]

It is a bit bright. What did the histogram look like?

[wigz]

Nice shot with the two birds facing each other, but a pity that the left bird is slightly obscured. I agree it looks a little bright on my screen.

[AlfandBen]

Bit of a different shot, I like it. If Faststone showed it darker, perhaps your monitor may need some tweaking? What monitor do you have?

Thanks Isac. I have a very old Dell monitor but would have expected it to look the same whether in Faststone or the forum.

It is a bit bright. What did the histogram look like?

Nice shot with the two birds facing each other, but a pity that the left bird is slightly obscured. I agree it looks a little bright on my screen.

Thanks both. Picking up on David's point about the histogram It was somewhat shifted to the right and going through the EXIF and it appears I had somehow added +1 exposure compensation.
I still don't really understand why on the same monitor the brightness should look different in the editor to the forum. Of course it could always be my eyesight

[Isac]

It's always hard to pin point an issue like this. Can you post up a screen shot of a side-by-side to show us the difference?

[AlfandBen]

Hi Isac, sorry for not replying sooner (couldn't get onto the forum for most of yesterday) but the more I look at this the less different it seems.
The pink of the pigeons breast just seems a bit less red than on the original but I am now thinking it's more likely my eyes need calibrating than the screen

[Isac]

I think there's a few of here with the same issue