![]() Please keep an eye out and report any sighting of these birds. We hope to learn more about how Gang-gangs move through the landscape from further recordings of Baldy and other Gang-gangs with distinctive features, such as Pie (with one eye), Jake (with the peg leg) and the distinguished Goldfeather. Nearly all we know about local Gang-gang movements has come from reported sightings of the distinctive male "Baldy" who travelled up to 4km to forage when feeding two chicks in the nest. Please look-out for distinctive Gang-gangs The Red Hill Regenerator site also has a link to a guide to Gang-gang nesting behaviour which give clues as to what to watch out for at the beginning and as the breeding season progresses. If you could report any such activity that would be fantastic. From now till mid October is when Gang-gangs are most noisy and active in their search for a nesting hollow so it is a good time to keep an eye out for any Gang-gang activity in or near a hollow. The page also has a summary of the outcomes to date from the nest hollow citizen science research. A summary of the Gang-gang diet report and a link to the full report can be read and accessed at the bottom of this page I would say that is part of “my style”, but I guess that it is just subjective preference.Stay well.Thanks to all who have provided records for the citizen science Gang-gang diet and nesting ecology studies, We have considereably expanded what is known about the Gang-gang and have informed many conservation and planing actions. In terms of mid tone contrast, I actually like that to be a little on the lower side (and like a little less overall contrast mostly), so I have definitely developed a processing method that selects for those slightly less contrasty outomes. Gang gangs in Victoria do have many birds with appreciable green in what is normally called “they grey parts”, so that may effect things too? Anyway, good to get into a discussion of these things, so thanks. Just saying you may be correct with seeing the greens, but my take is the birds themselves are OK. ![]() So I was a little afraid of getting that magenta look, which seems to be inherent to Canon systems and I have been conditioned to avoid. I have warmed this up, which converts the blues, but I think it may leave the greens? In addition, when I tried to adjust the green out (using the green-magenta color balance slider), the look went very magenta really quickly, even when I adjusted the slider only a couple of points. So, I think this is what happened and it has made the shots look blue/green. Now, that background was these Eucalypts and it is known that on cold, still mornings with sun, Eucalypts will release volatile organic compounds that make the light go blue (hence, the Blue Mountains). ![]() The wild a crazy theory for this set of shots is that the local weather and environmental conditions directly effected the auto white balance in the camera and skewed it to the even cooler side, which overall, made the background quite blue/green. ![]() But, after this, most of my shots seem to also come out on the cool side, which I do a small adjustment for to warm them up to where I think they sit well for the particular situation. I am happy with the white balance mostly that results all colors seem to cover the entire spectrum nicely. Then I apply a white balance adjustment method in PS (as I believe we have discussed before, I have tried several methods for this and will admit, it is still ongoing). I apply a color temp adjustment by eye in DPP when I convert the image to a tiff. Now, this is probably just a wild and crazy theory from me, but I noticed all the images came out of the camera very cool lots of blues and greens. This shot came from an interesting session where it was really cold, morning (but after any “golden” light - so late sun, but winter, so sun low in the northern sky) and located halfway up a slight valley situation filled with Eucalypts. Thanks for your input and I hope you are well! Yes, the ongoing white balance struggle! The green wash is very understandable. I would not have commented on WB if you hadn’t asked for input as it looks great as posted IMO. I also wonder if a small boost to the mid tone contrast might be worth a look. Any adjustments that I might make if I was fortunate enough that this lovely shot was mine would be very minor as in this case, I think it looks pretty right although maybe just a little green overall. I struggle with white balance too (as you know).
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