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Kinda like having a diffusion filter on. If you shoot at an angle through the glass the sharpness gets softer. If you shoot nice and straight through glass it looks pretty good. I have winter song birds shot through the glass and you would never know.
I don't have Lightroom. Poor man......using Photo Shop 6. Remember you could load the app from a disk, but you own it. I remember getting it at work and the learning curve looked huge. I never got to spend much time with it. I can get most all I want from Photo Shop 6. I am curious as to what I could do with the newer versions.
The hawk pictured flys down to the ground and jumps into my shrubs along the front of the house. He is only a foot of the ground. Big evergreen bush. That is where the House Sparrows fly into to stage for my feeders. Sometimes there are 20 little birds in there. Hawk is smart as a whip. I flush him out of there when I go out the front door all the time. I have the same problem with the Sharp-shinned. I find stunned birds out around my windows all the time. Sharpies are aggressive. I watched one take on a rabbit. He couldn't get it, but he rolled it.
Awesome. We have 2 Cooper's and one Sharp shinned hawks at our feeders. I also have seen blood from breakfast on a cooper's. My wife has gotten a few shots and some with her cell. I finally last weekend got some and 2 of him leaving his perch. Great pics!!!!
Ours hids under the car and waits for the sparrows. Lol
That sounds like a big project. I have seen stripping you can put on your windows to help keep the birds from flying into it. I think this year the song birds are getting hunted harder than in years past. I am finding dead and stunned birds around the house and feather piles on my deck. Winter is tough, they have to eat.
When I looked out and saw the hawk, that is the first thing I noticed as well, and, it was snowing hard. Those big fluffy snow flakes. No wind. It was perject!! All my screens are pushed up out of the way so I can shoot without a lot of fusing. I ran through the house shooting from any window with a clear shot. I looked down at my camera to check my histogram, (after I remembered I did not check my settings). Looked up and hawk was gone. Totally missing the flight shot. The whole encounter took less then a few minutes. Nice thing about cameras, I only need 1/2000 of a second of it.He's a beauty. I love the snow drift on his head
