{"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

No great theme today, just a few photos starting with a rather fine looking mallard.
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Next up is a goose… one of the locals.
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And a second goose (a local greylag). The white goose is essentially a domesticated (now feral) greylag.
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The final bird photo is of a much smaller species, the pied wagtail. This one was busy catching flies on the church roof.
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No foxes this evening, but a couple of pond-life shots. A young newt, and then a damselfly nymph.
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I'm currently in the middle of learning my way around Adobe Lightroom (using a 30-day trial version). It'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'll persist with the learning curve as I strongly suspect that once I have got a proper idea of how to use it I'll save a lot of time sitting in front of the computer. All today'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's Digital Photo Pro) is a big step forward and I only need to process shots I know I'm going to use. It also has some excellent tagging tools which should help in keeping track of images.
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Camera note: all birds taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The newt and nymph were photographed with the EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM lens. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[309,239,989],"tags":[472,1160,191,114,120],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-damselfly","category-nymph","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-damselfly-nymph","tag-duck","tag-goose","tag-newt","tag-pied-wagtail","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t