{"id":2120,"date":"2011-11-26T00:11:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T00:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2120"},"modified":"2013-11-07T20:14:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T20:14:57","slug":"a-small-selection-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-small-selection-box\/","title":{"rendered":"A Small Selection Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->No great theme today, just a few photos starting with a rather fine looking mallard. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/duck_2511113627.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/duck_2511113632.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Next up is a goose&#8230; one of the locals.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/goose_2511113614.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And a second goose (a local greylag). The white goose is essentially a domesticated (now feral) greylag. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/goose_2511113616.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The final bird photo is of a much smaller species, the pied wagtail. This one was busy catching flies on the church roof.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pwt_2511113731.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>No foxes this evening, but a couple of pond-life shots. A young newt, and then a damselfly nymph.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/newt_2511113736.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/damselfly_nymph_2511113741.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m currently in the middle of learning my way around Adobe Lightroom (using a 30-day trial version). It&#39;s in parts baffling (I get lost just moving around it), but the raw processing is excellent, as are the range of editing tools. I&#39;ll persist with the learning curve as I strongly suspect that once I have got a proper idea of how to use it I&#39;ll save a lot of time sitting in front of the computer. All today&#39;s shots were edited in it apart from final re-sizing and sharpening in Photoshop (which really does take only a few seconds). Being able to do fairly sophisticated edits (certainly when compared with Canon&#39;s Digital Photo Pro) is a big step forward and I only need to process shots I know I&#39;m going to use. It also has some excellent tagging tools which should help in keeping track of images.<br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><a title=\"site stats\" href=\"http:\/\/statcounter.com\/free-web-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/7187219\/0\/2c644058\/1\/\" alt=\"site stats\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Camera note: all birds taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. 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