Heron I found while photographing around a lake for the "Bummer" challenge. He stood still for 10 minutes and let me fill a 1 MB card. I starting packing and looked up and she was gone.
Convert from RAW, with minor saturation tweaks
PP in Gimp
Level
Curves
USM on bird
Blur on the backdrop.
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Yup it was OOF, although I (incorrectly it seems) did not think it was that bad.
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I came across this whilst looking at the sony A350 as an upgrade. I think you did very well with a short lens try iso 200 with this lens and see what your results are like .
Back to comment: Such a wonderful shot of the bird. Not sure if it was your intention to have it out of focus this way. It's not completely unappealing, however, would have been far better if it was imo.
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