Thanks Mike

I also tend to confuse between the songthrush and these birds, because of the spots

This is the one I meant Scott, quite big compared to the dunnocks that have been using my garden now as their dining table all over the place.

yes its in my back garden Scott
Oh by the way I have a bird for you to identify , let me process it, its a new one, hadn't seen it before.

Comments and critics greatly sought please.
I am still struggling big time postprocessing them. Have been shooting them in RAW now.
Thanks

They seem to have discovered the feeders now

Hey Scott, nailed this one after seeing yours in the gallery. But your goldfinch is way superior . Got to get them sharper. Light is not at the best of angles as in the mornings sun rises straight from the front.
Hope they come back in the afternoon again so that I will be waiting for them in the shed.
Its not even close to the one you got

Kris, I also think that Lightroom is great for that. I am glad that it just confirms that what I have been doing is the norm. I will sort out the error message, that shouldn't be a big deal, must be something to do with installation.

John that is a great tip, yup I think I should sweep the folder first with the Windows slideshow as its fast and get rid of the first bunch of rubbish contents and then move to Lightroom., great idea , thanks

Hi everyone,

I am wondering how most of you workout on picking and choosing the best images to edit from a bunch of the similar ones taken. What software etc and what method do you use to pick on the winners and try processing them.

I have been using lightroom and splitting the window and magnifying them and see which ones are most sharpened etc then to go and postprocess it. Obviously if you have a bunch of them one has to go individually and discard the bad ones. The ones that are easily picked up with errors are easy to pinpoint and discard but those ones that are very close between them in quality and sharpness tend to be more difficult.

Could some of you throw in ideas or what works best for you in doing so? Its a tedious job so I am wondering if you have a specific method where you go first for example into the folder and just open them up and write off the easily detected flawed ones before going into the details etc.

This would be quite helpful for me to learn the ropes as I get entangled in this aspect and occasionally my Lightroom even hangs while magnifying and gives me an error saying "server busy" another program is accessing the file and I should click "swap...." to open that program bla bla, but it never works, so I end up having to reinstall Lightroom again.
I do flag the images with different stars etc, and go through that process of selection, but am wondering if there is an easier first stage way to do this.

Thank you all

Amin

Its a lovely shot. I particularly like the reflections and the shadow of the cross. It gives a very Divine feel as Martin mentioned.
The reflections with its different warm colour patterns really enhance the whole image.
Nicely done Kris

Amin

mine too, thanks for such a great service Richard