To Live & Die In My Backyard - Cooper's Hawk

[ksbryan0]

Nice shots of a great backyard visitor! That Olympus did a nice job and seems to have metered the snow well, too!

[Photo-John]

Nice shots of a great backyard visitor! That Olympus did a nice job and seems to have metered the snow well, too!

The Olympus did a great job. I did do a fair amount of post-processing to get it to look this good, though. The light was really flat and I underexposed because of the snow. I brightened them up by about a stop and made color corrections to the RAW images in Lightroom. Then I fine-tuned them in Photoshop with a levels adjustment layer.

[ksbryan0]

I did do a fair amount of post-processing to get it to look this good, though.

That makes sense, as it would be a tough metering situation for any camera. Still made for some nice images.

[Photo-John]

That makes sense, as it would be a tough metering situation for any camera. Still made for some nice images.

Tough metering and crappy light. I was also fudging my exposure a bit to keep the shutter speed up without going past ISO 800. Based on the amount of correction I made in post, I probably would have been better off just going to ISO 1600. On the other hand, they did turn out pretty good. It's really amazing to me what Olympus has been able to squeeze out of the Four Thirds sensor.