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Not sure that I've ever seen this species before, quite sweet and I like the reeds. The IQ looks a bit rough, maybe a big crop? With little light, I think you did well, but more depth of field would have been better and I'd run some noise removal on the background.
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Hi Iain, new species for me as well. I feel you've captured the moment well and never would've known there was a ring on the leg. I also like the composition. Following on what Grace noted, it seems to display a slight amount of camera shake-was this shot handheld or perhaps the subject was swaying on the reed?
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Hi Ian, you did a great job on the ring and a nice singing pose, agree with above comments .
Keith.
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Thanks for the comments.
Grace I was struggling with the light which is the reason for the high ISO and f5.6. The crop is not so big, the bird was just left of center so I just cropped some of the space on the left and a little above. I have not really tried running noise reduction on nay of my images before So i will try it no this image as see if I can improve the IQ.
Randall I am not sure where you are seeing camera shake? It would be good to know if others agree, I thought it was just be noise from the ISO. 1/500 is a bit borderline for this combination and it was handheld but resting on a hole cut in a fence.
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Lovely shot I like the pose, colours exposure excellent.. I get the impression the head is just a little bit soft, maybe more sharpening would help. It could be a very narrow DOF as you mention it is very little crop.
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Thanks for the explanation, Iain. You had near impossible conditions. I'd try a hint more sharpening on his head and run noise reduction and be happy to have this one in my files.
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Sweet pose and comp, Ian. I love the perch and all the OOF reeds. With some NR and careful processing this image will likely look even better.
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I have been trying to improve the IQ of this image but am struggling as the image always seem to look worse to me. What I have been doing is opening the image in photoshop, creating a duplicate layer and then using a quick mask to create a final layer of the the bird and its perch. Then on the middle layer which is the copy of the background layer I have been doing filter->noise->reduce noise with values of around 2, 45%, 45%, 0% and remove jeg artifact. Then I have done filter->blur->gaussian blur at about 2.0 pixels. On the top layer of just the bird and perch I have done an unsharpen mask of about 30%.
At this the bird look over sharpened to me the noise on the background look like it has more noise if anything. I am going about this the wrong way or missing something? For example do I need to change a blending mode on the layers?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Thanks Randall It is better than what I was getting when trying to improve it. I will have another go.
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