European Robin

The red-breasted Robin has to England's most photogenic little songbird. I was setting up a perch for a shoot this morning and this little guy flew in before I was finished, curious as ever to see what was going on in the garden. No natural perch for this shot I'm afraid but it did come out with enough detail to be a shot to keep.

ISO 500 on the 1DMK2 is quite clean out of the box but viewed at 100% I did see some noise in the background so I masked off the robin using the magnetic lasso tool in PSCS2 and then applied noise reduction to the background so that the Robin's feather detail was not compromised.

Hope you like it, comments welcomed!

- Andy

Canon 1DMK2
Canon 400mm f/5.6L
1/320s f/5.6 ISO 500

Awww, so cute! A lovely photo

Just beautiful foxbat!

Great shot Andy, great colours, very sharp picture. Have you tried applying noise reduction to the original pic, resizing then applying some sharpening to bring the detail back?

Cheers

NickR wrote in post #2847752
Have you tried applying noise reduction to the original pic, resizing then applying some sharpening to bring the detail

I did try that but the detail lost by the NR was gone beyond the help of the smart sharpen tool. Also tried only NR in the luminance channel (where the noise was) and various degrees of high/low/med frequency NR.