Originally Posted by Bill W
Well, I did...literally nothing. [:P]
The shot was from the days when I was still shooting JPG, and except for cropping to an 8x10 ratio for printing, it's straight from the camera. I think the shot works partly because of the (lack of) background color. But, usually ISO 3200 is noisier because when you 'need' to go there, lighting is already poor. In this case, though, lighting was not too bad. Iwas standing on that bridge waiting to shoot birds flying by, so I had it set to M mode with 1/1000 s, f/6.3, and Auto ISO, and I looked down to see the red squirrel running across the railing and grabbed a couple of shots without changing the settings. Shot noise was (unintentionally) minimized because the shutter speed was pretty high, which I think mostly accounts for why this shot looks better than you'd expect for a 7D at ISO 3200.
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