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he is a "she'.... an Anna.... i am going to look at the book and see about the shutterspeed with this camera.. for a point and shoot its got alot of things i need to learn..
I have had several going back and forth today.
Yes the picture is a little grainy, did you try noise reduction in your processing? That may eliminate most of it.
800 ISO is a little on the noisy side for most shots taken with this camera. lower ISO usually means less noise. I try and keep my ISO at or below 200 like I did with the SX40. With this camera I'm able to take it down to 80 and is where I usually have it set during midday outdoor shooting. Also, with a lot of Canon cameras, there is a "sweet spot" where a particular ISO number is the clearest and least noisiest, 80 will probably be one of the least grainy and 6400 will be one of the noisiest ISO settings but, the "sweet spot" number could for example be 310 while the lower numbers may show more noise. I don't know what the sweet spot number is for the SX50 yet. One could look around for ISO noise tests on the net or go through all the ISO numbers with the lens cap on and see which one has the least amount of noise.
I use C1, custom setting on my SX50 most of the time and can adjust the brightness and shutterspeed on the fly by using the wheel, I do this before using a higher ISO setting.
I agree with Arlene that the noise is not too noisy, unless you intend to enlarge or print it. It does seem noisy for 800 ISO.
I hope you don't mind a suggested solution using your image. I used Topaz DeNoise. Be careful with noise elimination on fur, feathers and other textures or they can become soft. I used layers and masks to work around that.
thanks Janice for the comments.. i dont know how to "mask' or do layers to well.. i get impatient.. i guess i need to really sit down and learn "editing' better
High ISO settings are the price we pay for shooting in the gloom & doom of the PNW. Some cameras handle high ISO settings better than others, especially if you don't have to do much cropping. I am guessing that you did not crop the photo of the goldfinch as much as you did the one of the hummer.
