My feelings exactly - excellent shot, but ugly bird. I was thinking these birds were nicer looking - perhaps only at a distance.
-- Bruce Friday, July 7, 2006, 11:34:04 PM, you wrote: KM> I like the photo a lot but, alas, I don't think that the bird is KM> very attractive! KM> Keith McG KM> Jay Taylor wrote: >> Here's a shot taken a couple months back with the *istDS with the >> FA*300 f4.5 stacked with the F1.7X Adapter. This combo gives me a >> 510mm focal length and is not too shabby provided there is some >> decent light. I tried some Noise Ninja reduction in the BibbleLite >> Raw processing, but didn't like the way detail was lost on the bird >> even though the background was quite a bit better without the noise. >> I suppose if I took the time, I could combine two images (one with >> noise removed in background), but I'm hard pressed to even get this >> much posted lately. >> Comments & critique are always helpful from you folks. >> >> Thanks, >> JayT >> >> http://i.pbase.com/o4/87/63987/1/63091875.IxUtTQK6.GBHPortrait.jpg >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net