My wings for today are from a foggy morning at the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge. Taken just over 20 years ago with a brand new (at the time) Canon D60. It was a good reminder how far camera sensors have come as this had some absolutely horrible noise levels with ISO1000. A modern camera would need to be pushed to around ISO25000 to match the noise in this original capture. Happily modern software can often recover shots like this
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Topaz denoise will fix most of that D60 noise .My wings for today are from a foggy morning at the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge. Taken just over 20 years ago with a brand new (at the time) Canon D60. It was a good reminder how far camera sensors have come as this had some absolutely horrible noise levels with ISO1000. A modern camera would need to be pushed to around ISO25000 to match the noise in this original capture. Happily modern software can often recover shots like this
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I ended up using Topaz PhotoAI inside of Lightroom. I was quite amazed that anything would help given what I saw in the original
Nice Shots Doug!
Love the Mallards flying off and love the details on both the Green winged Teal and Mandarin.
Bonaparte's gulls have a thin black bill and black head (breeding) or an ear-spot nonbreeding. The gull in flight has yellow feet, large white spots on the wings, I think a yellow bill, and appears to be a small gull. Might be a mew gull. The Baguette gull looks large and has a red spot on the mandible, pink legs/feet, a large white head, and pale wings. I think he's a Glaucous-winged gull
Thanks for your thoughts Eric.
Trent, really nice birds in flight.
Thanks Oliver.. The gull with the bread was taken in Jun 26, 2012 and the one with the crustacean was April 21, 2005
Trent, the gulls are very complex, the gull in the photos lean towards Glaucous Winged Gull, breeding adult.