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[Paul_H]

Been struggling with IQ on my new camera and what looks ok on the monitor looks hazy once uploaded

Then today I went back to an old 75-300mm Nikkor lens and ran the image through noiseware and hey presto!

I think it's ok but I'm open to suggestions

ISO 800 F7.1 1/40 at 300mm

 

[Martyn...]

Depends on your sharpening during resizing the image.

Have a look at this thread, and my post #14 on the subject LINK

 

[Flossyrockstar]

Theres no exif so cant tell aperture, looks to me like the eye is sharp but the rear of the bird is soft. Could be down to large an aperture.
EDIT just seen bottom of post maybe F9 or F11 would have been a better choice.

 

[Paul_H]

Thanks Martyn I have printed that off and will give it a go. This image has just been cropped, the levels adjusted slightly and then run through noiseware .

 

[TinaC]

1/40 looks a slow shutter speed to me for birds; but what do I know? Hard pressed to get the wretched things in frame, never mind in focus all through!

They are so cute, hard to believe how vicious to their own

 

[Paul_H]

Tina / Flossy I was struggling with light it was taken at 3.18 this afternoon using aperture mode. I'm still on a very steep learning curve

 

[Martyn...]

1/40 sec is far too slow ... personally I would suggest 1/250 minimum, 1/500 ideal for perched birds, 1/1000 minimum for in flight stuff

 

[artyman]

Looks like it might possibly be slightly front focused judging by the droppings on whatever it's standing on.

 

[u8myufo]

Good capture Paul and some sound advice given, can you post up the original conversion before applying the noise reduction?

 

[Paul_H]

Rich
This is the original just converted to jpeg

Paul