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Nice pose, beautiful colors Willie. I miss a little overall sharpness here and I think the main reason is the high ISO's (not that you necessarily had a choice). Lovely bird though!
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If you haven't done any other pp, I would start with:
1. Putting the bird on its own layer....normally I do this, but you might be able
to get away with not doing it by just selecting the background and then...
2. Reduce the noise on the background.
3. Sharpen the bird a little at first and see how much noise comes out.
Maybe even just selectively select the head and sharpen that.
Doug
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Nice one. I like the pose and the subject. I have the 7D as well and it does not handle noise well. Anything I shoot at iso 800 or higher I do some noise reduction in post. I would try what doug said above it may help improve this one.
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Pose and subject are excellent. Not crazy about the fence post perch and very plain BG.
The eye is not sharp, maybe you missed placing the focus point.
1/1000 shutter speed is not necessary for a perched bird. Your SS could have been reduced 1 stop and your f-stop increased 1 stop to get more DoF.
40% crop increases the out of sharpness quite a bit.
I second what Doug said above.
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Noise causes loss of resolution at high ISO here. Not a lot to do about it in low light, except maybe try a lower ISO and see if you can still get sharpness with a lower shutter speed.
I would always favor PP -- there is a magenta cast and colors are muted because of it. A raw file always needs optimization (PP) -- as best as can be done in raw conversion then often more in PS. I'd take this one back to the converter and explore what you can do with colors.
As Doug noted, you might work on noise -- might not be necessary to separate the bird from the BG with layers, though. NR won't be a dramatic change and the Quick Selection tool in PS is often enough. Or just try it globally -- Nik's Dfine and Neat Image will often fix a BG and not mess with the image too much. Do them on a separate layer (Nik will make the layer, NI won't) and mask if necessary.
Last edited by Diane Miller; 06-19-2014 at 10:22 PM.
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Beautiful bird and pose. Try taping a natural perch to the fence post or whatever it is.... Was this created from your vehicle?
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