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Once brought into the Cardinal image, the Blue Jay layer had to be Free Transformed to fit and a black layer mask added – just painted back parts needed. Several layers of cloning and painting with both regular and mixer brushes was required to add back the needed detail and blend the colors together. Now the Blue Jay image had to have Topaz AI Sharpen applied in PS before stacking on top of the Cardinal layer. Below you can see what they both looked like at this point. The changes made to the RAW file for the Cardinal were copied over to the Blue Jay image and it was also brought into PS. In Lightroom an image that used the same bird feeder that was sharper had to be found – the one with the juvenile Blue Jay was selected. It helped, but it could not totally fix this pix. Topaz (for website see sidebar at my Tidbits Blog) Sharpen AI was added and set to Stabilize, Remove Blur 1.00, and Remove Noise 0.20. The image was taken into Photoshop where it could be seen this just was not good.
In the Basic Panel the Auto button was clicked and Texture and Clarity sliders were adjusted. The image was next cropped into a Square. In Lightroom these simple settings were applied: first opened the Detail Panel to adjust some Sharpness and add Noise reduction (because it is always there with this camera), then in Lens Correction the check boxes for Remove Chromatic Aberration and Enable Profile Corrections were turned on. One reason I wanted to use this Cardinal shot is that I liked the way his head was turned. You can see these both are in pretty bad shape. That is why the bird images were taken at different times, but I decided to leave the Blue Jay alone as I thought he looked cute. You will probably never find a Blue Jay and a Cardinal at this feeder at the same time. The juvenile Blue Jay image was shot first and the Cardinal second. The two images were not shot at the same time – actually several deer images were taken in between. I have learned that a little burst shooting and several attempts are especially good when I am not sure that I am getting the image I want. Obviously I was shooting a lot of images and that was a big part of why this worked. So here is what I finally came up with to fix this.
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Lesson learned – shoot manual when having problems! It may not be the best image, but I did get a nice remembrance of the birds and they are at least recognizable. If I walked in closer, the birds were totally freaking and would not come near the bird feeder, so this was a problem. Mainly my settings were off – they were working on the butterflies but not for the skiddish birds. Just doing a really quick blog this week – have been working on an image that was taken this last summer that I really liked, but it just was not that sharp.
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