American Kestrel flight silhouette

[Dan Brown]

Capture made near home here in Sacramento. I had to do some fairly severe NR but I'm happy with this at 1600 ISO! This is a fairly heavy crop. PP'ed in ACR and CS3, NR with Noise Ninja.

Camera Model: NIKON D300, handheld
Shutter speed: 1/4000 sec
Aperture: 22
Exposure mode: Manual
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Multi-segment
ISO: 1600
Lens: 80 to 400mm
Focal length: 400mm

[Dave Barnes]

Hi Dan.
Interesting shot, can I ask why you set the app at 22 fore this shot?
I think the BG can do with another run of NN still a bit of noise visible.
I like the traces of detail on the birds feathers.

[Tell Dickinson]

Doesnt work for me Dan - sorry - but the funny thing is I cannot put my finger on the reason why not ?

[Dan Brown]

Hi Dan.
Interesting shot, can I ask why you set the app at 22 fore this shot?
I think the BG can do with another run of NN still a bit of noise visible.
I like the traces of detail on the birds feathers.

Hi Dave, I was shooting into the very bright setting sun with the bird on a perch as he took flight

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the idea and would darken the bird even more. The NR result doesn't look good, how did you do this?

[Dan Brown]

I like the idea and would darken the bird even more. The NR result doesn't look good, how did you do this?

Axel, I just ran Noise Ninja with the dafault nr setting minus the sharpening. I think that when I viewed the image in PS, it wasn't at 100%. I can see what you mean. I will revisit this one. thanks