birdseye:kiwi.. i dont shoot raw...i have the original size in my gallery...but a jpeg..yours looks good, although i can't see it full size on the screen.. what did you do with this one exactly..thanks.. how does anyone set the camera to shoot white birds?
Birdseye take a look at this thread I wrote on exposure zones http://www.whatbird.com/forums/forums/thread/81624.aspx
with that in mind when you meter your scene such as white birds I would use spot metering and meter on the whites and keep them with in the zones. What I mean by that is if you look at the image that I attached to the exposure zones thread just under the grey scale there is some vertical lines and numbers when you look through your view finder you will see a similar thing .look through the view finder and move it about you will see that metering change. When shooting white objects if you can set your meter on a neutral color such as grass then lock that look at the lightest object and it is no more than a plus 4 then it will retain details I would try to expose so whites on birds are a plus 3 on that meter the same goes for blacks at the other end no more than -4 but try for a -3 I hope that makes sense to you.
I will download your image in the gallery and see what I can do
what version of photoshop are you using ? and do you use bridge?
Added note send me one of the images the uploaded ones have been converted to BMP send to my email
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