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Ally

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The weather changed like a dozen times today, the birds don't seem to mind as long as I keep supplying seeds.
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it seems like many people are getting some real activity at their bird feeders.
I suspect they all live in the west end of the city. Here out east things are not
that eventful. I like your shot of the House Finches on the feeder (male and female).
I've processed it a bit and cropped out the Chickadee because they are such scene
stealers. I did a PS exit stage right. I hope you don't mind.

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Quote from: "Shortsighted"
it seems like many people are getting some real activity at their bird feeders.
I suspect they all live in the west end of the city. Here out east things are not
that eventful. I like your shot of the House Finches on the feeder (male and female).
I've processed it a bit and cropped out the Chickadee because they are such scene
stealers. I did a PS exit stage right. I hope you don't mind.

How do you even do it? Your edit become sharper than my original photo. Please teach me
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Quote from: "Shortsighted"
it seems like many people are getting some real activity at their bird feeders.
I suspect they all live in the west end of the city. Here out east things are not
that eventful. I like your shot of the House Finches on the feeder (male and female).
I've processed it a bit and cropped out the Chickadee because they are such scene
stealers. I did a PS exit stage right. I hope you don't mind.


Here are a few more, hope you like them. And I posted some deer pic in the wildlife section, they came again this afternoon.
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Lovely set of image. I noticed that your male House Finch has a band - see if you can read it. It will be cool to know where it came from and how old.
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To process an image, whether jpg or RAW you need processing software, such as Photoshop
or Lightroom. Most people use LR but I still use PS. I cropped your image to isolate the pair
of House Finches and used the clone tool to eliminate the tail of the chickadee because its
presence offered nothing important to your photo. I used the sharpen edges tool for the whole
picture and further sharpened the eye and beak with the manual sharpen tool. Using the full-frame
sharpen filter also creates digital noise in the background especially when it is under-exposed.
I mitigate that noise by manually using the blur tool in and around the birds and feeder. I might
also have adjusted the levels (dark,middle-tone and highlights) to punch the photo. You could also
just use the brightness and contrast controls to achieve a comparable result.  Text is added with the
text tool (font,size) and then adjust with a separate tool for distorting the text as required.

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Quote from: "Dinusaur"
Lovely set of image. I noticed that your male House Finch has a band - see if you can read it. It will be cool to know where it came from and how old.
What shall I be looking for? Doesn't seem to be anything on the white band though.
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