sandbath at sunset

A beautiful shot, Ranga!

Fantastic!!

Ruud, Alberto

Thanks a lot for your visits and comments.

very neat, clean image- and bird.

A unique capture here..............

Unsure of the true colouring, I had a play in PSE6 and ran this through the Auto adjust filter......... hope you don't mind? I find the adjusted colouring a little easier on the eye and it has brought out a touch more definition on the bird, which for me, looked a little soft.

Just my thoughts...........

Regards

Greg, Grayham

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Grayham

It was very close to sunset, so we can't say the camera AWB was off the mark. Improving the bird's definition wrt the cluttered bg is another question. I wished for more motion blur in the wings, but all my captures were at the tail end of its shake-up routine.

Thanks for your responding comments.......... unfortunately you have not loaded up any exif data so I cannot see how this image was taken......

The auto adjust I used was the AWB correction, removing the orange caste shown on my monitor...............

I appreciate that you were trying to capture the "sand-shaking" of the bird and I could have accepted the softness in the bird had the surrounding area been in focus as well..... I possibly just tried to salvage the image as I saw it.

Best regards 

Very sharp portrait.  Nice and natural color.  Best Regards,

Wanghan

Thanks a lot for your visit and comments.

Grayham

I did miss out on the EXIF data, apparently in my last 2 uploads.  I have added it to this image since. Usually it gets added automatically, but sometimes gets skipped. Have to figure out why.

Thanks a lot for your painstaking efforts.

Grayham

I found the definition of the leaves near the swallow's foot amazing in your pic.

So without changing the white balance in GIMP, I tried adjusting levels/curves a bit more to bring out the leaves.