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Female Red-winged Parrot (28)
rcrick Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 629 W: 42 N: 1156] (3736)
Firstly apologies for not being around for a while, I can see I have a bit of catching up to do over the next couple of days. I had a had a little problem which resulted me being in hospital for a week, but a week of antibiotics, rest, and hospital food have done the trick, (actually hospital food isn’t quite how I remember it).

This is a female Red-winged Parrot taken on our trip up to the Girraween National Park, I managed to catch both species but messed up the exposure in my hast to catch the male, I have posted it in the w/s after tweaking it a bit in photo studio so you can see the difference between the to colours;

The Red-winged Parrot is a medium-sized, stout parrot and is the only mainly green parrot with large red shoulder patches. The male is bright lime green with a black back and deep blue rump. The tail is green with a yellow tip. The bill and eye are red and the legs are grey.

The female is similar, but with a smaller wing patch and dark green back and a paler rump. Red-winged Parrots are usually seen in pairs or flocks. Their flight is distinctive, with deep, full strokes and a light and airy quality, pausing on each stroke. This species is also known as Crimson-winged or Red-winged Lory, Red Wing or King Parrot.

They are found in open, dry woodlands, timber-lined watercourses and arid scrub and sometimes in mangroves. They spend most of the day in trees.
The movements of Red-winged Parrots are not well known. They are considered partly nomadic in response to local conditions, searching for food and water.
They will feed on seeds, nectar, pollen and blossoms, insects and larvae. They forage in the canopy on outer branches of flowering trees and shrubs. They occasionally come to the ground to drink or to eat fallen seeds.

Red-winged Parrots breed once each year. Eggs are laid in the hollow trunk of a tall tree, often near the ground. The nesting tree is usually close to water. The nest site may be a long way down from the entrance, which is high in the tree. Only the female incubates, leaving the nest to feed or to be fed by the male.

Red-winged Parrots are uncommon to locally common. Sometimes the young are taken for the pet trade.

Details, Shot Raw and converted to Jpeg cropped and reduced in size, sharpened slightly for posting.

Camera Model Canon EOS 5D
Shooting Date/Time 1/05/2008 9:01:22 AM
Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/1250
Av( Aperture Value ) 8.0
Metering Mode Center-Weighted Average Metering
Exposure Compensation +1/3
ISO Speed 500
Lens EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
Focal Length 400.0 mm
Image Size 800x812
Image Quality Superfine
Flash Off
White Balance Mode Auto
AF Mode AI Servo AF
Picture Style Neutral
Sharpness 5
Contrast 2
Saturation 2
Color tone 1
Color Space sRGB
Noise Reduction On
File Size 203 KB
Custom Function C.Fn:00-0
Drive Mode Continuous shooting
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rcrick Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 629 W: 42 N: 1156] (3736)
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Edited by:loot Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 5726 W: 605 N: 3416] (9137)
Hi Richard

As I said, this workshop was done on the underexposed version of the original photo you posted as a workshop.

Unfortunately you use Photo-Studio so I'm not sure if you will be able to do this within your software. Anyway, I thought I'd just show you how PhotoShop presents a solution to this backlight problem. Actually all the "Shadow/Highlight" settings (which were the main processing to accomplish this result) were done at default setting except for the "Midtone contrast".

Post Processing done:
1. Adjusted the "Shadow/Highlight" settings at the following values:-
-- Shadows:
-- Amount = 50%
-- Tonal width = 50%
-- Radius = 30px
-- Highlights:
-- Amount = 0%
-- Tonal width = 50%
-- Radius = 30px
-- Adjustments:
-- Colour correction = +20
-- Midtone contrast = -46
2. Adjusted "Contrast" to +3
3. Increased "Saturation" +3
4. Adjusted "Gamma" settings in "Exposure" to 1.03.
5. Chose "Save for Web".
6. Adjusted the "Quality" upwards from the original downloaded size of 136kB to 288kB.

I hope you approve of the optimisation that I've done.

Best regards
Loot
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rcrick Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 629 W: 42 N: 1156] (3736)
Under Exposed
Edited by:rcrick Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 629 W: 42 N: 1156] (3736)
This is the original shot of the male Red-winged Parrot, as you can see its underexposed and even after working on it in Photo-Studio I still wasn’t happy with the final image, so any workshop on this and or comments on how to shot with a bright backlight it would be greatly appreciated.
Altered Image #1

rcrick Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 629 W: 42 N: 1156] (3736)
Exposure
Edited by:rcrick Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 629 W: 42 N: 1156] (3736)
This is the male Red-winged Parrot the original shot the sky was the perfect blue and the parrot in the foreground was quite dark I have tweaked this quite a bit in photo studio but really didn’t think it was worth a posting, but wanted to show the difference between the two birds.