Post your best bird shots!

[Joel Eade]

Bonus point time, is it something to keep away the cold?

Very good guess .... if you look closely he has a travel coffee mug on the fence post next to the tripod

[Joel Eade]

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I still think the bird is soft, but that is probably because I started with a soft image that was focused more on the body than the head.

I think you're right, it just looks a little out of focus, nothing wrong with the steps you applied IMHO.

[Joel Eade]

I processed a few images today from the Bosque ....

[Dave Throgmartin]

Joel & Bob,

Any chance you could post any of pics above prior to editing them? I'm curious how much improvement you made in PP versus the original picture.

Dave

[ddt0725]

Very good guess .... if you look closely he has a travel coffee mug on the fence post next to the tripod

I thought that was a beer. Hmmm, maybe a tad too early for that, unless you put a raw egg in it of course!

[ddt0725]

Beautiful Joel! So, I assume you have applied the same technique to a certain degree as Bob on the flying birds?

[Dave Throgmartin]

Here's one from near my bird feeder.

Canon 60D f/8 1/640 second ISO 160 using the 55-250 lens @ 250mm. The only PP was rotating and cropping.



Dave

[Joel Eade]

Joel & Bob,

Any chance you could post any of pics above prior to editing them? I'm curious how much improvement you made in PP versus the original picture.

Dave

I shoot in RAW and the images would be too large ... if you want to see an jpeg converted straight from RAW and reduced in size I can do that.

Here is one....

[Dave Throgmartin]

I shoot in RAW and the images would be too large ... if you want to see an jpeg converted straight from RAW and reduced in size I can do that.

The original is still quite good, but the wings on the top bird especially look much better in the processed version. Thanks for posting the original.

Dave

[ddt0725]

Beautiful cardinal picture, Dave!!