The last image I'll post of snowy owls for this year is this unique fly-by where a female snowy grabbed a mouse in her talons. I love the way her left wing touches the snow, and the snow kicked up behind her is also cool. Almost all of the pictures of the owls had a certain amount of blue in them due to the overcast wintry conditions, so I eliminated that in Photoshop using Image > adjustments > hue/saturation. In the submenu, I selected 'blue' and then desaturated just that one color. That's the easiest way to affect a single color. My settings were manual exposure mode and 1/3200, f/11, and 800 ISO (determined by the auto ISO function). I used a 100-400mm Canon zoom. I purposely did not use my 500mm fixed focal length lens because the owls constantly changed the subject-camera distance and I needed the flexibility of a zoom.
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Feb 20, 2019, 7:22:32 AM
Jim - Hi Bob, Thank you. Yes, I was using daylight white balance. I only use auto white balance when I'm shooting mixed lighting, such as fluorescent mixed with tungsten, or daylight mixed with tungsten.
Feb 20, 2019, 1:41:07 AM
Bob Vestal - Striking and unique image, Jim. More memories of that first trip! Appreciate the advice on just adjusting blue saturation rather than white balance. By the way, I assume that you were using daylight white balance rather than auto. Is that correct?