Yet another Black Shouldered Kite stalking expedition has rewarded me with some cool shots of these gorgeous birds playing, BUT our grey cold winter sky is appearing all white and washed out ... is there anyway I can change the colour of the sky in these pics (it was a blue/grey) without effecting my beautiful birds?
Any feedback, tips etc would be much appreciated :)
If you shot in RAW there's more possibility, but it's unlikely as the shots are probably over-exposed and you've lost the detail that you can't get back. Also, you can see 'haloing' around the birds, so be careful with the post-processing!
@vikdaddy Thanks for this, I appreciate it. I actually used the auto enhance button on this one as I was in a hurry, so other than cropping and adding a frame, that was the only processing I did. I have another look at the original. Thanks.
Not that it would fix this particular image, but can you use a 'sky/cloud' filter on the lens? I have one for one of my vintage cameras. It seems to work quite well.
What do you use for post processing? In photoshop you could add a solid layer of a nice light blue, then put the image in a layer on top of that, set blend mode to darken and might need to mask some. That's exactly what I did in my picture today of a bird on a wire with a white sky, changed it to blue. I had the advantage though that my bird was almost black. You might get blue color bleeding into the birds themselves, being white.
@mikew !! Thanks - this is exactly what I was wondering was possible. I don't have any proper processing programs yet...just iPhoto which I used for the auto enhance (which was a tad extreme) and basic Picnik. I certainly will look at these programs in more depth. Love your bird pic too btw!
I often have the same problems - even down to the iPhoto! I'm not much of a one for post but figuring I'm going to have to bite the bullet and get photoshop and learn to use it
@notliz Mikew is correct, Youd have to mask out the white but it would easily allow you to add in a plain blue (or even re-shoot a sky to drop in) background using Photoshop. GIMP is a free "watered down" version of Photoshop, i do not have experience w/ it b/c ive always used PS but you may be able to get the same result there
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when the other poster said "haloing" he meant the white light that surrounds the birds as a glow effect- especially obvious for the one in flight