[Leica] IMG: White-rumped Shama (repost)

[wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)]

Last winter I photographed a White-rumped Shama in very poor lighting 
conditions; much like the Western Bluebird re-posted a week or so ago, the 
light on the Shama was heavily filtered / colored by overhead foliage making 
good color balance tricky at best: good color balance on the bird resulted 
in drab  foliage, and good foliage color turned the bird a sickly green.

For this lighting condition I've created two separate Curves adjustment 
layers, one for the foliage and one for the bird, creating a mask for each 
layer corresponding to its intended target.

Here's the result for the Shama:

(previous) http://www.wildlightphoto.com/temp/wrsh00.jpg

(revised) http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/turdidae/wrsh00.jpg

All comments are welcome.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com