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Apr 9, 2021 13:22:51   #
GBH at the lake. Sony a1 with FE 200-600mm G lens @ 600mm

1/2500sec, f6.3, ISO 2000

Moderately Cropped ranging from 20-40mp on 50mp originals.


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Mar 12, 2021 16:48:56   #
Wow, that's some amazing post work! Congrats on the final.

If I had anything to say it would be to expand your canvas at the top of the frame and add the final wisper of smoke. Wouldn't it be nice if the smoke just tailed off into the air instead of being cut off. Or recompose the body so it fits within the total smoke mask.
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Jan 31, 2021 10:53:26   #
Very cool!
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Dec 17, 2020 22:09:05   #
Great set topcat!
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Dec 17, 2020 16:56:26   #
Here's another one. Just playing around with Photoshop sky replacement. Neat new feature in Photoshop.

This I made as a 16x9 wallpaper


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Dec 9, 2020 22:55:38   #
Regis, how are you liking your new R5 and RF lens? Much lighter than your last rig, right? not to mention the low noise levels.

Fantastic Eagle action shot!
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Dec 7, 2020 18:58:12   #
Topaz is a must have for the high megapixel cameras. D850, a7r4. These bodies generate noise like crazy. Well the lower megapixel cameras do too, you just can't see it like the 40mp and higher bodies.
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Dec 7, 2020 14:09:09   #
Bubalola wrote:
What I am thinking now is I am getting the trial version of both programs, and thank you for the handy hint.
BTW, can you recall the distance you took the picture from? Thanks again!
Eugene


I don't recall Eugene, but was probably 40-50 feet or more
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Dec 6, 2020 10:47:53   #
Jimmy T wrote:
Please pardon me. br I am not trying to hijack the... (show quote)



Thanks Jimmy. That's basically what I did, except I didn't need alot of those steps. I do my adjustments in LR and have the Topaz products plugged into light room.

So I brought the raw into LR, then took it over to Denoise ai, then cropped the denoised TIFF in LR, then adjusted for exposure, etc. in LR, then brought over the adjusted denoised TIFF to gigapixel ai for upres, then made the resulting denoised and gigapixeled tiff into a jpeg through LR export.

To make things go ultra fast I kept the Topaz processing on auto.

Sometimes I process my RAWs through Capture One, which then is a slightly different flow.
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Dec 6, 2020 10:36:06   #
WDCash wrote:
Very nice.
I like how you did it in steps.
Is this because megapixel suggests noore then x6 bump?


You can choose the bump you want in gigapix ai. I chose 2x and 4x to create the 13mp & 54mp images respectively. The multiplier is applied to both the long and short sides of the cropped original.
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Dec 5, 2020 20:01:05   #
I took this back in April 2015 with a Canon 5DM3 and Tamron 100-600mm @ 600mm.

I decided to re-edit the underexposed, underwhelming RAW photo with a healthy crop, then run it through Topaz Denoise and then Topaz Gigapixel to upsize the cropped photo. Took all but two minutes.

What do you think?

Original (22MP)

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Original Cropped (3.4MP)

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Crop edited for exposure and upsize 2x (13.6MP)

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Crop edited for exposure and upsize 4x (54.2MP)

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Nov 28, 2020 15:18:38   #
CHG_CANON wrote:
Just 'up size' back to 2048-pixels on the long side. That should minimize the painterly effect of the details and minimize the artifacts, while creating a digital image to 'fill' most every target display monitor. The halo around the bird is one distracting artifact, particularly around the tips of the wings and the entire underside of the bird.

The wing position and focus on the bird are superb! The comments here and by others seek to best harvest the results in the processing, that compliment the camera work rather than distract.

For the colorspace, the 2nd image reports being created by Lightroom. To manage the colorspace and possibly the pixel resolution, re-import the output from Gigapixel back into LR and export the result to the sRBG colorspace and see what 2048-pixels looks like after up-sizing to 24MP. Compare that flow with simply upsizing the crop within LR to 2048px. You probably want something that is sharpened and noise free (blue sky) like the Topaz result, maybe a different Topaz module is the solution with LR managing the slightly increased pixel resolution and output colorspace.
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Good info! Thanks CNG_CANON!
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Nov 28, 2020 15:16:52   #
bwana wrote:
Topaz's GigaPixel has worked very well for me as well but I've found the process is more than just using GigaPixel, i.e.:
1. DeNoise
2. Sharpen
3. GigaPixel
And if you're starting with a JPG, use JPG to RAW first.

bwa


Thank bwana, I'll try that.
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Nov 27, 2020 22:38:41   #
jabra wrote:
Nice shot! Upsized image has proper background color when downloaded. Have you had a chance
to compare this process against the Photoshop offering. I hear the "Preserve Details 2.0" RAW works very well too.
Did you use RAW or jpegs with the Gigapixel AI?


Tiff files. Raws were processed through captureone and converted to tiffs.
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Nov 27, 2020 22:37:44   #
Ourspolair wrote:
Could be that you did not save it in sRGB. Amazing detail in the upsized images. Now we can save on long lenses?


I'll have to go back and check the srgb. Thanks!
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