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Day 159: Back to the backyard…

We were sitting outside the other evening and two Cedar Waxwings land in the Mountain Ash tree by us.

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(1/1500s f/5.6 ISO1250 400mm Canon 7D)

It was late evening and the tripod was out in the car, so these are handheld.  That is why the ISO is 800 and 1250.

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(1/750s f/5.6 ISO800 400mm 7D)

For editing I just cropped, resized, and used the Automatic Enhance that Elements has.

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(1/1000s f/5.6 ISO800 400mm 7D)

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(1/750s f/5.6 ISO800 400mm 7D)

I pushed the saturation just a bit (+3 to +5).  On these next four of the second bird, I lowered the HUE -4 to -10.

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(1/750s f/5.6 ISO800 400mm 7D)

There was avery greenish cast to the photo, from the late evening sun reflecting off of all the leaves.

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(1/1500s f/5.6 ISO1250 400mm 7D)

The two birds were close enough to be in the same photo, but with the lens wide open I has such a shallow depth of field, they couldn’t both be in focus!

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(1/1500s f/5.6 ISO1250 400mm 7D)

One last closeup.

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(1/1500s f/5.6 ISO1250 400mm 7D)

~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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