At risk of doing the backyard birds to death...

[teamster633]

I know it's just a common blue jay, but they move pretty fast. This one was a little bit of a ham.

[Celebration]

1. Great closeup!

That is truly outstanding detail.

Not sure I have ever been THAT close to a bluejay, but I'm not really sure that I care to. My husband claims he feared being injured by blue jays when he was on a jog. Apparently he must have run by a nest.

I have a feeling we'll see a bunch more birds as the spring progresses(one can hope). I actually got a picture of a woodpecker today, but not really a closeup. It's getting to be a pretty good time to get some pictures, because there are no leaves on the trees to hide the birds.

I'm getting a bit sick of some robins. Robins were chasing the bluebirds all over the trees in Shelby Farms the other day.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Cute!

Great capture. :thumbsup:

[hippywife]

3. Great portrait!

It's like he's posing for you. And he has whiskers! LOL

:hi:

[NV Whino]

4. I'm ready for my close up, Mr Teamster

(Somebody had to say it.)

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

5. Not exactly my backyard but...

pretty close. Maybe you guys can help me. The camera I use doesn't have enough 'oomph' for some of these far away pics. Is there a way to make it bigger digitally and not lose quality?

[teamster633]

6. As a rule, post-processing can't create detail that isn't in the original.

I was always taught that in Photoshop you can scale down, but never scale up. A plug-in for the program called Genuine Fractals claims to have the capacity to scale up, but Photoshop was expensive enough that I couldn't justify spending even more on this tool. It's bad enough that Adobe gets me for another $200 every couple of years just to keep their program up to date.