Glenn Pure
03-18-2018, 11:01 PM
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This species also occurs in Europe, Africa and Asia so may be familiar to some in BPN. I photographed this one at the 'Crake Pond' at Melbourne's Western Treatment Plant (a Ramsar-listed wetland) on a recent visit. These birds forage among the reeds and rushes and don't often come into the open. I was fortunate to get some good opportunities during my visit. Apologies for the slanted rush leaf over the bird as some may not like it but I've left it. These birds are quite tiny. The crop retains about a third of the frame area.
As always, 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, f6.3, 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 to bird and stronger NR to background. Bird only sharpened in PSE (Sharpness tool, remove Gaussian Blur) after final size reduction.
This species also occurs in Europe, Africa and Asia so may be familiar to some in BPN. I photographed this one at the 'Crake Pond' at Melbourne's Western Treatment Plant (a Ramsar-listed wetland) on a recent visit. These birds forage among the reeds and rushes and don't often come into the open. I was fortunate to get some good opportunities during my visit. Apologies for the slanted rush leaf over the bird as some may not like it but I've left it. These birds are quite tiny. The crop retains about a third of the frame area.
As always, 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, f6.3, 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 to bird and stronger NR to background. Bird only sharpened in PSE (Sharpness tool, remove Gaussian Blur) after final size reduction.