Hawfinch

[Patricia Nordforss]

This image is taken with D300 and 300 mm f.4. 1/640, f. 4 Iso 200.

with kind regards
Patricia Nodforss


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[Randy Stout]

Patricia:

Lovely little bird with great eye, excellent head angle, nicely scaled perch.

The feather details looks a bit smoothed out, esp. on the abdomen. Perhaps just the nature of their feathers. I don't think it is a DOF issue as the feet are pretty sharp. Did you run noise reduction on the image?

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers

Randy

[Patricia Nordforss]

Patricia:

Lovely little bird with great eye, excellent head angle, nicely scaled perch.

The feather details looks a bit smoothed out, esp. on the abdomen. Perhaps just the nature of their feathers. I don't think it is a DOF issue as the feet are pretty sharp. Did you run noise reduction on the image?

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers

Randy

Thanks for taking an interest in my image. No I have not used any noise reduction. I do not have that sort of program.

with kind regards
Patricia Nordforss

[Randy Stout]

Thanks for the info Patricia.

I will chalk the smoothness up to his natural feather pattern.

It is always helpful to mention what post processing you did, as it helps folks critique the image in a more useful and focused manner.

Cheers

Randy

[Patricia Nordforss]

Thanks for the info Patricia.

I will chalk the smoothness up to his natural feather pattern.

It is always helpful to mention what post processing you did, as it helps folks critique the image in a more useful and focused manner.

Cheers

Randy

I am a bit uncertain what you mean by chalk the smoothness up to his natural feather pattern. I am not all that good at fixing an image in photoshop I mainly light up a picture or darken it and I can sharpen it a bit thats all. Also what is a DOF issue has it got something to to with the lens or? My english is not all that good.

with kind regards

Patricia Nordforss

[Mats Honkamaa]

DOF = Depth of Focus. Skärpedjup in swedish :)

I really like this photo. Great sharpness, background, eyecontact and a beautiful bird.

[Randy Stout]

Patricia:

Sorry for not being clear.

"Chalk it up to" just means that the matter being discussed results from a particular explanation. In this case, although the feathers on the breast look so smooth that it made me think that noise reduction had been run on that area, it in reality must simply be that this particular bird has soft/smooth feathers in that area.

Mats: Thanks for the help with DOF.

When you comment as much as I do, you tend to use abbreviations to speed up the process, and some of them aren't universally known!

Cheers

Randy

[Patricia Nordforss]

DOF = Depth of Focus. Skärpedjup in swedish :)

I really like this photo. Great sharpness, background, eyecontact and a beautiful bird.

Thank you for expalining DOF and for liking my image.

with kind regards

Patricia Nordforss

[Patricia Nordforss]

Patricia:

Sorry for not being clear.

"Chalk it up to" just means that the matter being discussed results from a particular explanation. In this case, although the feathers on the breast look so smooth that it made me think that noise reduction had been run on that area, it in reality must simply be that this particular bird has soft/smooth feathers in that area.

Mats: Thanks for the help with DOF.

When you comment as much as I do, you tend to use abbreviations to speed up the process, and some of them aren't universally known!

Cheers

Randy

Thank you for explaining. And again thank you for taking such interest in my image.

with kind regards

Patricia Nordforss

[Humberto Ramos]

Nice shot, in Portugal we also have that specie (Coccothraustes coccothraustes), I'v not photograph him yet...

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Very nice shot. Well composed, exposed and timed to get the perfect head position. Thx for sharing.