Merlin
by Enlightened

Comment by MacDonald:
I love wildlife shots with a passion and if that means having branches in front of the bird - so be it. A difficult bird to get and you did a good job shooting into such a light sky .. if possible, dodge a little catch light in it's eye .. just subtle but it will add a lot to the shot. Nice job.

Merlin
by Enlightened

Comment by sfalice:
This is a good habitat shot and shows off the alertness of that magnificent bird.
good capture.

"If I stay still she won't see me!!!" Thought the rabbit
by Enlightened

Comment by sfalice:
You know, this bunny would look good in a head and shoulder crop.
There's a lot of detail that probably could "go away" and still
make a good image.
Just a thought, of course. It must have been a triumph just to
get this little guy.

Barred Owl
by Enlightened

Comment by Ja-9:
How do you like that lens? I'm getting the itch to find a deal on one of these...hmmmm

"If I stay still she won't see me!!!" Thought the rabbit
by Enlightened

Comment by Ann:
Kroburg's article on fixing snow looks as good as anything I could find. The easiest approach is to shoot in raw, and fix the white balance during the raw conversion process. I suspect that everything is a bit blue, not just the snow.

Another approach...in Photoshop use a Color Fill Layer set to color blending mode, controlled with the opacity slider.

Choose new fill layer, set the blending mode to Color.

Pick the opposite color of your cast (helps to know basic color theory here - blue vs yellow, green vs magenta, red vs cyan and whatnot). In this case it would be yellow or orange.

Use the opacity slider of your new layer to control how strong the effect is. I find that 10-20% opacity will normally do the trick. In this case, since the color cast isn't very bad, 5% might be enough.

"If I stay still she won't see me!!!" Thought the rabbit
by Enlightened

Comment by BeckyT:
I think you did very well capturing a white bunny in white snow. That is hard to do. I don't think the snow is that bad. If you have photoshop you could use selective color and try to remove it that way. I am sure if you google there are tons of answers. I do not get snow where I live so I am really not much help :)

Merlin
by Enlightened

Comment by BeckyT:
I just love seeing these birds. I haven't had the opportunity to take their photo. I unfortunately do not have a lens big enough. Wonderful composition and find.

"If I stay still she won't see me!!!" Thought the rabbit
by Enlightened

Comment by bsluijk:
This is a tough picture to get in focus - the rabbit was at least partially right, because I think the autofocus saw more of the higher contrast branches slightly to the back than of the rabbit. I'm watching this on my laptop, which is far from perfect, but your snow does look fairly decent, maybe a tad blue still.

Merlin
by Enlightened

Comment by bsluijk:
Tough lighting you faced here. Although I never practiced this myself, I hear that you could try to use a fill flash to give a little more light, and to create a catchlight in the bird's eye.

"If I stay still she won't see me!!!" Thought the rabbit
by Enlightened

Comment by Kroburg:
Great image of that rabbit, lovely the way it is looking at you. I also like the composition.
As for the snow, can be difficult indeed. I once had an interesting article about it, was looking for it myself. Did find it this morning, here is a link to it:
White snow

Message edited by author 2013-02-03 03:21:16.