How do you make birds stand out in color?

[Fast Glass]

Here I edited your last photo for you, I used levels and a slight tone curve and barely a touch of saturation and sharpening in DPP.You Need to expose your shots a lot more so there are just highlight holding. Then you will have much better colors.


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John.

[Alan]

I use Photoshop CS4, in the Lab color mode. This will allow you to control the colors without dramatically changing the brightness of the image. Not everyone has the full Photoshop program, but it gives you much more control of the colors, rather than relying on strictly saturation tweaking.


Lab color mode takes some getting used to, especially when using "curves," but it can really "pop" the colors on animals and landscapes.