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Garden1 - Observation

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Photo Details:
Date taken:     2017-03-16
Camera:         Nikon Coolpix L830
Date processed: 2017-04-08
Program:        GIMP 2.8

Collection:     Photo 33


Description:
Two - if I'm not wrong - common blackbirds (Eurasian blackbird, turdus merula).
They observe what those weird humans do from a secured place...

I learned that it isn't easy to take shots of birds.
Especially free-handed and using great optical zoom which increases exposure time.
A section of the picture will travel more than the entire picture when shaking, plus a reduced shutter speed will catch more of these movements; so you get two penalties which reinforce each other, very unforgiving. :stare:
I conclude: Zoom = Difficulty²

During post-processing I decided to turn the picture darker and less saturated on purpose.
It gives a more immersive impression to me, also I didn't like that the bright road on the other side of the fence taking too much attention.
Some primary colours' saturation (yellow, green and red) have been increased a little while the master and other primary colours' saturation (magenta, cyan, blue) have been reduced; thus the plants, fungi and beaks are slightly highlighted; and the blackbirds are closer to true black.

Another reason I reduced saturation and lightness is that I decided to crop it to a 16:9 ratio, so it makes a perfect desktop background on 1920x1080 (1080p) screens, such as my laptop.
And if you know a little about user interfaces then you don't want a too distracting background.
The two worst things would be high contrast and too much distinct elements; as I can't eliminate the latter I worked on the former. :)

Post-Processing:
• Cropped
• Colours > Levels... > Auto
• Filters > Enhance > Unsharp Mask...
• Colours > Hue-Saturation...


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Image size
4000x2250px 4.53 MB
Make
NIKON
Model
COOLPIX L830
Shutter Speed
10/600 second
Aperture
F/5.7
Focal Length
57 mm
ISO Speed
280
Date Taken
Mar 16, 2017, 3:51:48 PM
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