Glenn Pure
12-31-2017, 10:14 PM
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It's mid-summer here - no snow here! I captured this shot on New Year's Eve after having been to this location (Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra) a week earlier - but on a sunny day when photography was not going to give me the result I wanted. New Year's Eve was cloudy so I forgot about cleaning the kitchen that morning and headed out. This is an immature Eastern Spinebill - the closest thing Australia has to a hummingbird. They will hover at flowers but prefer the less energy-intensive approach of perching when feeding. Apologies for those who like their frames simple. This one clearly is not as is much about the flowering Kangaroo Paw as the bird. But I loved the setting and hope you do too. This is about half the frame area. No, I haven't boosted the saturation at all either! Happy New Year to all at BPN.
Thank you for looking and for any comments you are kind enough to share.
Technical: Canon 80D with EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM at 400mm handheld. Manual exposure 1/640 sec, f7.1, ISO 1600. Processed in Canon DPP 4 (digital lens optimiser @ 50, sharpness = 3, crop, lighting adjustments, NR) then exported 16 bit TIFF to Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin. Modest NR applied to bird and stronger to background. Bird only sharpened in PSE (Sharpness tool, remove Gaussian Blur: 0.4 pixels at 50%) after final size reduction.
It's mid-summer here - no snow here! I captured this shot on New Year's Eve after having been to this location (Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra) a week earlier - but on a sunny day when photography was not going to give me the result I wanted. New Year's Eve was cloudy so I forgot about cleaning the kitchen that morning and headed out. This is an immature Eastern Spinebill - the closest thing Australia has to a hummingbird. They will hover at flowers but prefer the less energy-intensive approach of perching when feeding. Apologies for those who like their frames simple. This one clearly is not as is much about the flowering Kangaroo Paw as the bird. But I loved the setting and hope you do too. This is about half the frame area. No, I haven't boosted the saturation at all either! Happy New Year to all at BPN.
Thank you for looking and for any comments you are kind enough to share.
Technical: Canon 80D with EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM at 400mm handheld. Manual exposure 1/640 sec, f7.1, ISO 1600. Processed in Canon DPP 4 (digital lens optimiser @ 50, sharpness = 3, crop, lighting adjustments, NR) then exported 16 bit TIFF to Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin. Modest NR applied to bird and stronger to background. Bird only sharpened in PSE (Sharpness tool, remove Gaussian Blur: 0.4 pixels at 50%) after final size reduction.