The hills are alive

At last the first of the Rouzel migrants have arrive and very accomodating they turned out to be, mind you at -2 this morning it was a job to hold it all steady, until the sun appeared.

D300 600mm f4 +1.4 TC
ISO400 -.7ev1/640th

your comments would be appreciated.

Well done Paul, a grand shot of what for me is a real "bogey bird"

Its nice... minor nit is the bit of grass across the beak.... But more importantly something strange is going on with your processing.... perhaps you could outline the steps and we may be able to pinpoint what is happening...

Best

Lovely pose, and you could clone out that grass across the beak. I agree with Phil about the processing.

David

Well taken Paul, but for me the big stone is a bit distracting.

Nicely captured but agree re the processing - almost looks like an HDR image ?

Thank you for your comments,, processing is as follows.
on calibrated monitor:
Niklon transfer to HDD
Bibble for adjusting sharpness
and noise and perhaps some contrast issues.
transfer to CS2, place border and copyright, convert to srgb,save for web at 720 on longest side, open jpeg sharpen, save under 200kb
upload to UKNP

Paul... not sure at all what is going on... the image appears to be suffering from extreme diffraction effects, I not all that familiar with Nikon, are you shooting RAW?

How are you adjusting sharpness in Bibble? (again not a program I am familiar with although others are)

Only thing I pick up at the moment is that you could perhaps be doing some of the Postprocessing more in CS2... and that you have a couple too many steps in preparing the image for the web, once you have a jpeg at web size it is probably best not to re-open it and then save as jpeg is horribly lossy....

Phil

Nice species,but 10 or 15 % of full frame never looks good

Hi a nice image of one of my bogey birds, it looks like you either have an element out of alignment in your 600 or probably the converter that's what the strange halo is.

Phil.