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Ruby-Throated Hummingbird

Started Jun 24, 2018 | Photos thread
Barry Pearson
Barry Pearson Veteran Member • Posts: 9,625
Re: Ruby-Throated Hummingbird

Mike Arledge wrote:

I have tried for years now to get some good hummingbird photos in our yard, but to no avail.

My sister-in-law however asked me to bring my camera over to their feeder and try to catch theirs and get some print worthy shots of their family's "mascot" a male ruby-throated hummer they have nicknames Watermelon.

Took the KP and the DA* 50-135, had to hit ISO 1600 and crop, but overall, I will take it!

They are super photos!

I bet they exceeded your sister-in-law's expectations. Have you tried printing them?

You mentioned ISO 1600, as though you are perhaps concerned with noise. I wonder what post-processing you have done with this in mind?

The reason I ask is that I've done something that many people would object to. I downloaded the first of the JPEGs, and I processed it in the Detail panel in Lightroom: noise-reduction and sharpening. I was able simultaneously to reduce the noise across the background and sharpen the eye and claws. Without changing anything else.

I won't show the result here, (unless you ask me to), but my message is that these gorgeous photos still have room for slight image-quality (rather than artistic) tweaking.

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