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Feel free to share your photos and other birding-related content here. If a photo you post isn't yours, please credit the original creator! Additionally, it would be appreciated if the location of the sighting and a date were given when a photo or question is posted. You do not have to give the precise location, something like "Northern Idaho, June 2023" or even "North-Western US, June 2023" suffices.

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I think I got a pretty decent bino shot of a double-crested cormorant. Today in northeast Ohio. (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by Nebulizer@lemmy.world to c/birding@lemmy.world

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[–] cr0n1c@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not OP, but all I do is digiscope and, yes, all OP needs to do is edit the pic on their phone, hit the button that "auto-adjusts" the colors, etc. And it usually looks way better. Here's an example, I took through a scope, afterwards I used more advanced software magic:

[–] Nebulizer@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I tried that out and posted the picture in another comment in this thread (https://lemmy.world/comment/10346090). I think it's better but I have some more to learn. Your photo is brilliant!

[–] cr0n1c@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Thanks, there are some neat advances in technology to help with enhancing cellphone photos, yes, some of them involve AI to help upscale the resolution and refine the details. If you're on Instagram you can check out my content on 'theCronicBirder'