Always watch your back

[Grahame Hamblin]

d800e always loved this straight out of camera a small crop f8 1/200 iso 650
Grahame

[arash_hazeghi]

This one isn't really working, the IQ is very poor with soft and coarse details and the OOF bird is a big distraction.

TFS

[Daniel Cadieux]

The birds do look pretty (what is the species?) and the scene well exposed but the image is soft and cropped too tightly. Did you sharpen the image? You say you love the image "straight out of camera" but post processing is always a big part of the equation to get the most out of your files.

[Gabriela Plesea]

Hello Grahame,

Thank you for this post, your pretty subjects resemble our South African White-Eye, I would like to know the name of this species if you had the chance to look it up?

I too find post-processing an essential step in bringing out the best of my images, and I believe your capture would greatly benefit from a bit of PP work. It takes years of practice and experience to produce a straight-out-of-camera shot that needs no work, I must admit I put in at least three to four hours per day (evenings, after work) into processing and generally learn something new every day, whether it is from books or Internet or just asking for help from my BPN friends

Kind regards,