I have never seen the hummers bill open. If you look closely her tongue is there
too. This happened so fast, that I did not see it until I looked on the monitor.
Captured sitting on our pole-bean frame in July.
Terry
It's certainly a nice up close image of the hummer.....and a bonus of the open bill. Did you try to clone something from the bottom....the repeating pattern to the right of the tail resembles cloning. Also, there is a lot of noise in this image that could be removed by several programs.
Terry
I don't have any experience with Neat Image but have used Noise Ninja in the past. Usually if I have a relatively clean BG I can just select the BG and run a little blur on it from Photoshop. I'm curious as to how large of a crop this image was and if you had to up the exposure in your processing.
Lana
The exposure was bumped up a fair amount, but not extremely so. Here is the full frame, if that helps. I will try the blur approach on the background next time. Thanks for your help.
Terry
Terry
Figures....the little stinker had to sit next to the string. Put up a hummingbird feeder next summer....and then tie a very small attractive branch above it or to the top of your bean pole.
I was hoping that it was larger in the original frame and you could make a nice portrait out of it but it may just be too big a crop for that. The more you have to bring up the exposure......the more noise you create. Give the blur a try and see what happens.
I see that Lana has given you some great advice, so I'll just add a suggestion about getting rid of the bg noise. If you selectively sharpen just the subject and not the bg when processing the image, it should reduce the noise. When you sharpen an entire image you are also sharpening any bg grain making it much more pronounced. Then when you crop, it magnifies the noise even more. By not sharpening the bg and then blurring the bg as Lana suggested you should be able to eliminate the bg noise.
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