[cchuck]

Very mild LightRoom adjustment to Color Temp, Tint, Exposure, Clarity and fairly severe crop saved as jpg and then down-scaled to fit web site limits.

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[clippy]

A hard bird to get out in the open.

 

[Woody Meristem]

Very nice photo, too bad about the twigs, but you take what you can get.

 

[cchuck]

Yes, that location, a fish hatchery many decades ago, is full of bushes, vines and fallen limbs and trees. Good for birds and patient birders; a tough spot for photographers. I just visited your blog. Good work! I see you fully understand the Hermit Thrush.

 

[ssheipel]

Looks good!

 

[cchuck]

Good question! I've never paid any attention to those settings because I do all of my sharpening and noise reduction in Photoshop. Guess I should! My copy of LR classic is set to Adobe Defaults. I think the sharpness default for that is 40.

 

[cchuck]

I didn't realize there was a default in LR for sharpening. Nice to know. Thanks! If I add sharpening, it happens as part of Topaz DeNoise, or in Photoshop/Detail. I used neither on the image. It then lost detail in down-scaling and file size contraint when I posted it. I was hoping to get the image to reflect just the camera and lens capabilities. Sounds like that would be a challenge.

 

[cchuck]

Thanks for the info, albeit a bit off-topic it's helpful. I'll readjust and get back to posting photos.

 

[RichF]

Very nice. Too bad about the bush

 

[cchuck]

Very nice. Too bad about the bush

Thanks!