Thanks JJ. I was very pleased with the results. I did learn that I am really bad at manual focusing and got lucky on a couple. I believe these were all at f10, 1/400 sec, at iso of 400 or something right close to there.


Here are the two pictures you have mentioned. Both are sized to 750 with no sharpening or cropping. Just the exposure adjustments mostly. On the other pictures I used Nates sharpening technique and NN for the smoothing of the background. I did take out a branch in the second picture.


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