Comment on Enough to Make a Grown Bird Photographer Cry … by David+Policansky

David+Policansky — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:40:28 +0000

Hi, Artie. What Sandra Calderbank said. By the way, I don’t understand why anyone would use crop mode on a full-frame camera. You’re just throwing pixels away, and not gaining anything. You can crop on the computer later and get the same result. As for the lessons, well, there are so many options on modern computers with lenses (as what we call cameras are these days) that there are almost infinite ways to screw up. I recently found my camera was in time-delay mode. I have no idea how it got that way and I didn’t have the time then to go through all the menus to figure out how to fix it, so I cleared all settings and started over. What a pain. The image you optimized is wonderful and amazingly sharp. With love, Dr. Fish

Comment on Enough to Make a Grown Bird Photographer Cry … by Steve

Steve — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:14:49 +0000

Regarding the chick image with the fish, it’s adorable! My main criticism would be that the out-of-focus yellow area behind the chick’s head is similar in color to the yellowish feathers on the chick and there’s not a strong distinction between the background and the subject — they sort of blend together. Is there a way to increase the contrast between the two? (I mean in post-processing; not moving your shooting position when making the shot.)

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Comment on Enough to Make a Grown Bird Photographer Cry … by David+Policansky

Comment on Enough to Make a Grown Bird Photographer Cry … by Steve