Golden Crown Sparrow

I made this image last week-end early in the morning. It was quite overcast and gray most the day, and this little Sparrow was inside the canopy making the shot a bit tricky. Since my extender is broken and I still haven’t sent it in I was using my old D300s for the crop factor and I don’t like to take my ISO up any higher than 500 on that camera, so the bird was a bit dark.

I opened up the shadows and exposure a bit on the bird using the adjustment brush in Adobe’s Camera Raw after going through my normal white balance, camera, and lens calibration, and noise reduction settings in ACR. Then I opened the image in CS6 for resizing, added my watermark, and web sharpening.

Using Actions in CS6 to add the final touches this image took me less than 5 minutes to develop.

I like that! 🙂

Nikon Df| AF-S Nikkor 300mm| Hoodman STEEL Ultra High Speed Digital Film| CS6| Tripod

More to come…

6 Comments

- the dune mouse
- Posted May 16, 2015 at 10:35 pm
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a lovely shot of a very sweet bird!!
- - circadianreflections
  - Posted May 17, 2015 at 4:36 am
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  Thank you so much Cybele!
- Dan Antion
- Posted May 16, 2015 at 3:09 pm
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What a cutie – great photo Deborah.
- - circadianreflections
  - Posted May 17, 2015 at 4:36 am
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  Thank you Dan!
- Nandini
- Posted May 15, 2015 at 4:44 pm
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Beautiful as always Deborah 🙂
- - circadianreflections
  - Posted May 17, 2015 at 4:40 am
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  Thank you so much Nandini!