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TOPAZ CLARITY OR DETAIL FOR ANIMALS AND BIRDS ARCHIVE
TOPAZ CLARITY OR DETAIL FOR ANIMALS AND BIRDS SOFTWARE

It’s not going to make much of a difference for this image, but for an image such as a bird in flight against a bright blue sky, it corrects for the “color fringing” that can sometimes occur.

I always make sure I check the box for “remove chromatic aberration”. I set everything to 0, as I don’t want Camera RAW applying sharpening or noise reduction, as I don’t think it does nearly as good a job as Topaz DeNoise AI (coming step).

Other settings for RAW conversion: For this photo there’s not much else I want to do before converting from RAW to TIF. There are other tools in Camera RAW you can also use for exposure adjustment and the like, with Curves being the other tool I often use.īefore and after applying exposure and other corrections prior to RAW conversion Note the end result of this basic adjustment on the bottom, with whites on both the fence post and bird showing much more detail, and a less starkly bright exposure overall. Here just a touch of an increase results in some darker background tones and darker tones on the bird, giving the image more “pop”. It’s a strong tool that really is wonderful in providing increased clarity to an image when shooting in hazy conditions, but overall it does a nice job in deepening contrast.

Dehaze is described as basically compensating for light scatter in the atmosphere. This lowers overall exposure only for the brightest parts of the scene, a very useful feature in this situation when I want lower exposure in the whites.

Change the “highlights” setting to -80.

Drop exposure overall for the whole scene by -0.40.

Here I’ve simply made three quick changes to lower exposure overall and bring out some detail in those whites (with all other settings shown on the right representing default values for this shot): It can often be done simply in the “Basic” tab, with slider bars where you can correct exposure, contrast, and other elements.

TOPAZ CLARITY OR DETAIL FOR ANIMALS AND BIRDS ARCHIVE

However, in RAW, you can adjust that exposure before converting to your long term archive format (TIF for me).īelow is a zoom of the bird as I correct exposure in Camera Raw. If you don’t like to deal with the hassle of shooting RAW and shoot in JPG, you’re already in trouble, as that exposure is baked in and you don’t have nearly as much flexibility in saving that detail in the whites. Not an uncommon situation, as in this case, the sparrow popped up on the fence post for just a second, and I quickly grabbed a photo with a lot of time to change camera settings. Original photo, straight from my Canon 90D, and what it looks like when I open in Camera RAW.Ĭorrecting for exposure: The first thing I notice in the photo is that it’s overexposed in the whites on the underside of the sparrow, and a bit too bright for the scene overall. I’ll eventually crop, but for now my main focus is on the overall exposure. You often try to “fill the frame” with the bird to get maximum detail, but birds don’t often cooperate! Thankfully with today’s DSLRs, there are plenty of pixels where you can crop some of the frame, and still have sufficient detail for large-size prints. Note that as is often the case when you’re shooting birds, there’s a lot of “empty” space. Here’s the original photograph straight from my 90D, as it appears when I first open it in Adobe Camera Raw. O pen and evaluate the photo in Adobe Camera Raw. A very good example of a typical processing flow follows here, for a Harris’s Sparrow I photographed this morning on top of a fence post.

TOPAZ CLARITY OR DETAIL FOR ANIMALS AND BIRDS SOFTWARE

That involves two software packages: Adobe Photoshop (and plugins), and Topaz DeNoise AI. I’m trying to show the whole flow for a typical photo, and while the steps below may look daunting, processing from RAW to a final TIF for long-term digital archiving is typically just a couple of minutes for me. I try to use the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) mantra, and keep the habitat and bird as I saw it. I don’t do a huge amount of digital processing. As I start to process those photos, I thought I’d share my “typical” recipe for processing photos from RAW from my Canon 90D, something I always wanted to blog about. It was just an hour, but I managed to photograph 6 species, and got some photos in nice early morning light. This morning I had a nice short excursion to try to grab some photos of migrating sparrows.