{"id":1401,"date":"2006-07-14T02:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:42:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:42:49","slug":"another-look-at-horrible-really-bad-bird-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1401","title":{"rendered":"Another look at horrible, really bad bird photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">If you&#8217;ve followed the comments on my bad photo post, you might&#8217;ve noted that Pam from <a href=\"http:\/\/pashack1.blogspot.com\/\">Tortoise Trail<\/a> did a little work on the photos.  I thought it might be interesting to share the results of her *playing* &#8211; hope you don&#8217;t mind, Pam!  <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">It feels a bit like cheating to post the same photos twice, but I think you&#8217;ll agree that these images are hardly the same.  I&#8217;m amazed with what photo-processing software can accomplish.  I routinely use a basic processing program that is free with my ISP to crop and brighten some of my photos, but I had considered these photos beyond my skills for repair.  I also use PhotoShop once in a blue moon to play around with and soften a pic, but that program is so very complicated; learning to use it seems daunting.   Being a lover of books, I would really appreciate  it if someone out there could suggest a practical guide to improving digital pics &#8211; let me know if there is a book that has been helpful to you.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Pam also made a guess at the last (and worst) bird photo.  She guessed Seaside Sparrow, but I think it&#8217;s a Salt Marsh Sharp-Tailed Sparrow.  <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkowl.blogspot.com\/\">Patrick<\/a> is that right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/REVgoldfinch.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/REVchickadee.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/revchestnut.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/revnighthawk.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/REVsharp-tailed.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve followed the comments on my bad photo post, you might&#8217;ve noted that Pam from Tortoise Trail did a little work on the photos. I thought it might be interesting to share the results of her *playing* &#8211; hope you don&#8217;t mind, Pam! It feels a bit like cheating to post the same photos &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1401\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another look at horrible, really bad bird photos<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}