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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike D90" data-source="post: 232583" data-attributes="member: 17556">Thank you all!  Brian, what amazed me was I needed almost no processing.  All I did was a little exposure adjustment, some saturation adjustment to kill some of the ugly winter grass color and a crop.  I didn't have to sharpen at all and no noise reduction.What I did today was find that sweet spot you been telling me was there.  I got a good bit closer and backed off the zoom a little to about 280mm instead of 300mm, I kept my aperture at or above f/8 and a fast shutter above 1/1000th.  ISO never dropped below 800 and was usually lower.  Also by getting close it changed the angle the light was hitting the bird and the shadows were just nearly perfect.</blockquote>