Wildlife Photography

[mdees88]

What can I do to fix the hazy purple on this guy's chin?View attachment 3494266
I tried just turning the saturation all the way down, and got this
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Which is okay, but I want to know if the purple is avoidable or not. It happens in other photos as well, especially when they're underexposed and I have to brighten the shadows a lot, like this one.View attachment 3494273
You can clearly see purple on the edges of the branch the bird's standing on. I do have a UV filter on the lens, if that makes any difference...

It's called purple fringing/chromatic aberration. You see it more common in budget lenses, but certain lighting situations make it more prevalent (I think being back-lit and high contrast/hard transitions between bright and dark areas, also shooting wide open). Happens in binoculars, riflescopes, etc. My Canon EF 50mm 1.8 STM gets it sometimes. It can be easily fixed in lightroom. I'll see if I can find a video on it...

On the hummer, that is a combination of both the purple throat and CA. You can tell it is CA because the beak is purple too.

Here's a couple of my images with it that I never corrected. It's on the antenna and in the bright reflections on the scales....

 

[mdees88]

You can clearly see purple on the edges of the branch the bird's standing on. I do have a UV filter on the lens, if that makes any difference...

Under lens correction, go to the defringe section, click the eyedropper, put it on the purple spot and click. Everything that color will disappear. If you need to fine tune (usually don't have to) you can adjust the "amount" and "hue" sliders

This is called green fringing. If you click on it with the eye dropper it will go away too. It is just desaturating that particular color....

 

[azurbanclucker]

Belted kingfisher, I believe it's a female.

 

[BrandonsBirbs]

When that midday light pays off

 

[mdees88]

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When that midday light pays off

Great shot!

 

[BrandonsBirbs]

Great shot!

Thank you very muchly! Here's the husband!

 

[BrandonsBirbs]

Quite like this one, from same time as others.

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

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Quite like this one, from same time as others.

I love the sparkles on the water; they add a sort of dreamlike quality.

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

An example of a before and after edit. Different photos, but the same idea. Those spots are really, really bugging me. There's a nice camera store in Seattle that cleans sensors, so when I go see family over there, I'm going to get it cleaned. It's long past time.

 

[mdees88]

An example of a before and after edit. Different photos, but the same idea. Those spots are really, really bugging me. There's a nice camera store in Seattle that cleans sensors, so when I go see family over there, I'm going to get it cleaned. It's long past time.
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Hopefully they can get it cleaned up for you. That's a lot to clone out on every image, but at least they do clean up nicely. What camera is it?