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6 hours ago, BillCB said:

Great shot but I'd have used the white balance tool on his breast.

I'm not @Timkr, but I'd be upset if you did that with my images. 

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Now, the 'wrong' handling of colours, framing, focus, you name it. To make a long story short, there is no wrong. There's only one's taste. Of course, one is entitled to dislike things as much as they want, including how other people handle the colour of their images. However, it may make sense to step back and understand why people do what they do. Often, they do things "incorrectly", not due to a lack of knowledge or plain stupidity. They may follow their guts or have a vision others don't have, and that's what makes our community so rich and diverse.  

I like the original image better. It's exactly how it looked in the woods—green-tinted. That may add a feeling of wrongness, of not nailing it, of missing the task from a conventional photography perspective. But nature gave this bird the colour and patterns of its plumage for a reason. It camouflages perfectly into the patterns and colours of the environment. If you were white-balancing this, everything would look right but utterly wrong content-wise. 

 

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2 hours ago, hansvons said:

I'm not @Timkr, but I'd be upset if you did that with my images. 

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We live in a diverse world that is rapidly changing. The beauty of diversity is that it accelerates development and allows for new views on almost anything that wouldn't be possible without the input of these new emerging groups of people. The best example is the role women now play in the professional world. And we are not even remotely leveraging their skills to their full power (that also counts for everybody else, including men, who tend to be stuck in masculine conventions). There's still a lot of leeway. Ultimately, the world can become a better place if we let diversity thrive, especially in the field of photography where every unique perspective adds to the richness of our art.

Now, the 'wrong' handling of colours, framing, focus, you name it. To make a long story short, there is no wrong. There's only one's taste. Of course, one is entitled to dislike things as much as they want, including how other people handle the colour of their images. However, it may make sense to step back and understand why people do what they do. Often, they do things "incorrectly", not due to a lack of knowledge or plain stupidity. They may follow their guts or have a vision others don't have, and that's what makes our community so rich and diverse.  

I like the original image better. It's exactly how it looked in the woods—green-tinted. That may add a feeling of wrongness, of not nailing it, of missing the task from a conventional photography perspective. But nature gave this bird the colour and patterns of its plumage for a reason. It camouflages perfectly into the patterns and colours of the environment. If you were white-balancing this, everything would look right but utterly wrong content-wise. 

 

Your post looks like it was written by AI Chat GPT.
Too many words meaning little sense.

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I apologize if I gave offence to the OP or anyone else. None was intended and of course I have in no way modified the original photo - just a screen shot.

Personally, I have learned a lot from others on various photo websites where I have received constructive criticism. I welcome it for any of my own images.

Bill

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Village on the shore of Lake Maggiore, the sharpness and color brilliance of the 90-280 is and remains impressive!

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SL 601, 90-280 mm, Iceland

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The Svanhild tall ship cruises past Stansvik peninsula on its way back to port in Helsinki, while a skein of geese fly over.
Svanhild was built in Grännes, Finland, in 1948 for timber freight traffic around the Baltic Sea.
 
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Duck Family SL3 

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Worker B - VARIO-ELMARIT-SL 90-280mm f/2.8-4

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To Bee or Not to Bee said the Wasp - SL3 + VE 90-280 at 280, hand held. I was surprised to hit these bees from ten feet away, using the tracking albeit clumsily. I will get serious with a tripod or monopod next time. I love the abstract-background-bokeh shapes in flora/semi macro work. 

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Wildflower displays at Kings Park - SL3 VE 90-280 at 280

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Cargo Vessel transiting through Gauge Roads, the channel for ships between Rottnest Island and the mainland. Rottnest Island is some 28 kilometres from my shooting position at North Beach and showing the north eastern section of the island. Shot with SL3, added sharpening to vessel using Topaz AI App. 

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Got to love a crane image.SL3 with 90-280 at 280

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Glacier, Ortler, Südtirol, SL 601, 90-280

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