Originally Posted by
saleeltambe
Daniel,
Thanks for your inputs. The blur is a mixed effect of 500mm+1.4x at full open aperature. The background is actually a far side hill with trees having yellowish leaves . The bird was near the edge of the first hill and there was quite some empty space beyween the bird and the background hill - the effect is what you see here. I have used selective sharpening on the bird and Noise reduction and selective blurr (but not gausssian) on the BG. Hope this info helps.