Well there is some noise in the out of focus areas. I don't mind that. In fact, I prefer it over a look that is starkly digital. This was shot at ISO 4000 and probably bumped up a half stop in rendering. On my monitors it fills about 1/4 of the screen.
Paul via phone > On Feb 19, 2017, at 12:06 PM, Jack Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I agree, Paul. The sparrow shows fine detail. My system handles your images > easily, > but their size tends to falsely emphasize what appears as grain. I pull the > image size down > and see the fine detail I mentioned at the top. > > J > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Stenquist" <[email protected]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2017 7:51:11 AM > Subject: PESO Pretty Lady > > With most bird species, the males are most attractive. That’s not true of our > common house sparrow, as the ladies are quite lovely, while the coloring and > marking of the males is garish and borderline ugly. Here’s a pretty girl in > my backyard. I think this might have the best detail of any of my bird shots. > K-1 in crop mode, with the DA F 150-450 and the DA 1.4X converter. This is > close to full frame. Shot from about 20 feet away off a tripod, while sipping > on some good scotch whiskey. > > https://www.photo.net/photo/18354996/female-sparrow > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

