Canon 7D Canon 500mm f4 L IS & 1.4TC , beanbag, ISO 800 1/1600 sec f5.6, this is another shot from the series previously submitted. I have been playing around with the ACR settings for noise reduction - many thanks to Morkel and Rachel. I am a lot happier now, it is strange over the years I tend to go this way then that thinking this method is better than that, for some reason I had got it into my mindset that ACR noise reduction was a no no becasue it softens the image. This is true but so does any NR system they are generally speaking antagonistic to sharpening regimes. I think minimal NR in ACR and a generous mask when applying modest sharpening makes fora good recipe. In Photoshop I applied a mask to the hares and relevant DOF areas I then applied a very light surface blur to the background.
All comments however critical are welcomed - I won't be offended!







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