Before & After: Female Red-winged Blackbird

1/640 | f/6.3 | ISO 1600 | 700 mm

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Before & After: Least Bittern

1/1000 | f/5.6 | ISO 640 | 700 mm

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Before & After: Reddish Egret Dance

1/1000 | f/6.3 | ISO 200 | 700 mm

Another image from Merritt Island NWR. From the same sequence as this one and this one Read on to see the before and the processing to get to the after ...

Before & After: Great Blue Heron Pair

1/400 | f/9 | ISO 200 | 700 mm

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Before & After: Lesser Yellowlegs

1/500 | f/6.3 | ISO 320 | 700 mm

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Before & After: Eastern Kingbird

1/320 | f/10 | ISO 1000 | 1000 mm

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Before & After: Red-Winged Blackbird

1/320 | f/11 | ISO 320 | 1000 mm

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Before & After: Reddish Egret

1/800 | f/6.3 | ISO 320 | 700 mm

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Before & After: Double Crested Cormorant

1/320 | f/11 | ISO 400 | 1000 mm

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Before & After: White Ibis

1/1250 | f/5.6 | ISO 400 | 700 mm

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Before & After: Bald Eagle

1/1250 | f/6.3 | ISO 560 | 700 mm

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Before & After: Osprey

1/2000 | f/4 | ISO 800 | 500mm

Today I share my process to go from the out of camera photograph to what you see above. I start off with an NEF (Nikon's raw file) and process everything in the trial version of Photoshop CS6.