Its a Caspian Tern shot at the inland lake at Maumee Bay State Park

Here a few images from last summer, fall and winter.

Here some Hummingbirds shot high ISO and SS between 1/2000 and 1/8000 and ISO's of 2000 thru 8000.

Sprints were at Winchester and Eldora, the boat was down in St. Petersburg, Florida. These are all film scans with either an Epson Perfection V700 Photo or a Super Nikon Coolscan 5000.

Here are some images shot at 1/1000. Black and white was tri-x color was 400ASA. I shot USAC sprints, midgets, dirt champ and Indy cars through out the 1970's and 1980's. Road racing was too easy for me since they don't go that fast. Only the Indy car wreck was shot at 1/2000 @ F:8 on tri-x. For really fast photography try shooting a milk drop with electronic flash. A golfer could be shot with a multiple strobes and multiple imaged in a darkened room.

That's a typo error. I've never been able to do masking. I've tryed it and it just will not work. I've tried putting marching ants around the subject bird but Topaz just ignores it.

My computer will not do masking. I've done PS since since PS 2 and have figured out masking.

V2 is in Topaz Sharpen AI and NOT in Topaz Denoise AI. Its what I call small increase(?). The lower you go in Topaz Sharpen AI the stronger its get. You will see artifacts in the background. At least that's what I've found.

I shoot birds. So when I lock in my correct exposure on a bird the background goes into under exposure. Topaz Denoise AI will remove the noise in the background and sharpen the image. When I shot the Hawk which is in this thread I had a shutter speed of 1/640 which is too slow for the hawk however when I applied Sharpen AI it sharpened right up. I use Topaz Denoise as part of my workflow and only use Sharpen AI on those missed focus flight shots.

I've seen questions across several different photography forums concerning the use of Topaz Denoise AI and Sharpen AI. I use Sharpen AI on birds in flight shots because I've used a shutter speed that's too slow for the action. On the attached photos of the Hawk my shutter speed was 1/640 which was much too slow. The second hawk photo is after I used Sharpen AI with a setting of V2. I was really surprised at the difference between the 2 images. The same thing happened with the Northern Cardinal. I would have deleted both images as being too much out of focus but if they aren't OOF too much they can be saved.

Why is it out of focus?

Here are a few more image that I processed today.

I have a Red Head snow suit which is wind and water proof, a pair of Mickey Mouse boots and the Heat Company heat gloves. They have a heat pocket in the liner glove and one the the leather zippered mitten. I can be out in the freezing cold and be as warm as a bug in a rug. The cold does not effect the camera or lens but I had a problem of my breath fogging the eyepiece.

I use Auto ISO and the shutter speed was 1/3200 at F:8. I used a D3s with my 600mmF:4g VR. I also had 21 focus points up. So I would put the circle of focus points on the image (sometimes up to a 100 yards out). In post I crop to a 4x6 in PS6 and I use Topaz AI Denoise & sharpening on each image.

They are along the Mississippi River in Iowa. Just google Lock and Dam 14 and you'll see it.