High Perch
Taken 1-16-09 at 4:07 p.m. from inside my house.
Camera: hand held, no flash, Canon 55-250 IS lens (set at 250 mm), shutter priority (Tv), 1/250, f/5.6, ISO set on auto (camera chose 400), matrix
Edited the image with Picasa 3: added fill light, used the soft focus tool 3 times to fade out the distracting limbs in the background, sharpened, cropped to 4x6. Wish I knew how to get an image that looks like this without having to do so much editing. Any suggestions from BP members will be much appreciated, since I'm so new to shooting with an SLR.
Contest: Animals (January 2009)
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Uploaded on January 17, 2009