I'm back in California after leading a 9-day birding tour in South Texas. My first time on a plane in a year!
As the tour was billed as 'Birding with a Camera', we spent some time at local feeder set-ups. I was generally
focused on helping clients learn basic bird identification and become more familiar with their cameras, but I was
able to crack off a few of my own frames here and there.
This one isn't anything terribly special but does represent my first go with Topaz Denoise AI. And all I can say
is 'Holy sheet!". I cannot believe how well it works and how easy it is. I could spend a week battling with
sharpening and noise in stand-alone LR and still not achieve these results. I'm looking forward to making this
a part of my workflow. This inaugural time I did the following:
- Opened RAW in LR
- Basic Temp/Tint adjustments
- Adjusted exposure/highlight/shadows
- Cloned out dust spots
- Bounced over to Topaz for NR and sharpening
- Returned to LR for a few color tweaks
- Exported with some additional output sharpening (I still don't understand how the sharpening done in Topaz and after the fact are different and/or affect the image)
Canon 600mm f/4 IS II on EOS 1DX2
1/500 at f/5.6, ISO 3200
Tripod (a real rarity for me)
Northern Cardinal - first run with Topaz
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