King Fisher

[bridgena]

Camera model:	NIKON D700	Date/Time:	2011:01:28 16:093
Resolution:	800 x 473	Flash used:	No
Focal length:	500.0mm (35mm equivalent: 500mm)	Exposure time:	0.0002 s (1/5000)
Aperture:	f/4.0	Focus dist.:	7.94m
ISO equiv.:	1,250	Whitebalance:	Auto

[Charles Scheffold]

Beautiful bird - I like the pose and background.

Unfortunately the image quality is disappointing, perhaps due to a heavy crop, underexposure, or oversharpening? The lighting appears somewhat harsh and from behind the bird, so I'm wondering if you might have cranked up the levels to balance out the shadowing. If you could provide more information about what you did with this image, that would be helpful.

thanks
Charles

[bridgena]

Hi Peter

My name is Bridgena - will post the un-worked image and then maybe you can assits in tips to manage it better

Thanks for your time
Bridgena
Converter to SRGB and did a image size change - all yours!

Hi Gena (I am making this up, perhaps you can reveal your real name ),

The pose of this KF I like, looks like the excitement just after landing on the perch.

The image seems to have suffered from some substantial pp: did you use highpass sharpening ?

[bridgena]