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Tree Sparrow Portrait

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Posted by Craig Nash on January 6, 2007 at 3:24 PM
Tree Sparrow Portrait
This was taken at RSPB Portmore Lough today Eos 1d2n 400 f5.6 and 1.4 Converter Cropped to remove some twigs
Posted by Phil Shaw on January 6, 2007 at 3:46 PM
As presented, it looks a little underexposed and could do with some sharpening. I think you could make this better with some additional processing.
Posted by Craig Nash on January 6, 2007 at 3:51 PM
Im afraid I only have Iphoto and it doesnt do a very good job!
Posted by Nick on January 6, 2007 at 4:09 PM
Hi Craig,

You can add some sharpening in iPhoto using the 'Adjust' button and then changing the sharpness until you start to see some detail in the feathers - taking your posted shot as a starting point, moving the sharpness slider to somewhere in the region of 35-40 looks OK. You can play with a few other adjustments in the same place too.

Out of interest - did you shoot this in RAW or JPG, and have you got the Canon software installed on the Mac too?

Hope that helps a bit.

:wavey:
Posted by Tom_W on January 6, 2007 at 5:03 PM
Craig,

Why don't you down load the trial version of Adobe Lightroom.