I really liked the moment that I captured watching that Great Blue Heron hunting late at night... I always wonder how can they see? Especially hunting those bushes. In the third picture the Great Blue Heron catches a tiny little crab... a lot of work for such a little prize. I did not have much hope that I would be able to publish any of these images because of the high ISO I had to set on my camera. Images ISO ranges from ISO 5,000 all the way up to ISO 20,000. Topaz Denoise AI came to the rescue to a certain extend. But then Jarek S. "Jerry" www.flickr.com/photos/162376953@N04/ told me about the new product that Topaz has released, Topaz Studio 2 which includes several filters including Clear AI which deals essentially with the noise ... I gave it a try and reprocessed all the pictures of this series with the new version of the Topaz product. In my opinion it is even better than Denoise. I purposely left all the file formats available (including extra large display) for those interested in looking at the performance depending on the compression. The noise handling is pretty good in some cases all the way up to extra large format... In that series, the Great Blue Heron continued to hunt even in the dark. I have shots taken at ISO 20,000 and they are still usable, especially if you post your images in a 2048 x 1365 format, something that many Flickr subscribers do. Can you guess which images of this series has a ISO of 12,800.

PS I only used the Clear AI filter software in its auto mode but the software offers a much greater functionality.

Many Thanks to Jarek for sharing one of his secrets of his wonderful photography....now I have to continue to dig in for more of his other secrets :) Have a look at his photostream when you have a minute... it is great

www.flickr.com/photos/162376953@N04/

Tags:   Hunting at the Blue Hour Great Blue Heron wild and free Victoria British Columbia

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I really liked the moment that I captured watching that Great Blue Heron hunting late at night... I always wonder how can they see? Especially hunting those bushes. In the third picture the Great Blue Heron catches a tiny little crab... a lot of work for such a little prize. I did not have much hope that I would be able to publish any of these images because of the high ISO I had to set on my camera. Images ISO ranges from ISO 5,000 all the way up to ISO 20,000. Topaz Denoise AI came to the rescue to a certain extend. But then Jarek S. "Jerry" www.flickr.com/photos/162376953@N04/ told me about the new product that Topaz has released, Topaz Studio 2 which includes several filters including Clear AI which deals essentially with the noise ... I gave it a try and reprocessed all the pictures of this series with the new version of the Topaz product. In my opinion it is even better than Denoise. I purposely left all the file formats available (including extra large display) for those interested in looking at the performance depending on the compression. The noise handling is pretty good in some cases all the way up to extra large format... In that series, the Great Blue Heron continued to hunt even in the dark. I have shots taken at ISO 20,000 and they are still usable, especially if you post your images in a 2048 x 1365 format, something that many Flickr subscribers do. Can you guess which images of this series has a ISO of 12,800.

PS I only used the Clear AI filter software in its auto mode but the software offers a much greater functionality.

Many Thanks to Jarek for sharing one of his secrets of his wonderful photography....now I have to continue to dig in for more of his other secrets :) Have a look at his photostream when you have a minute... it is great

www.flickr.com/photos/162376953@N04/

Tags:   Hunting at the Blue Hour Great Blue Heron wild and free Victoria British Columbia

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I really liked the moment that I captured watching that Great Blue Heron hunting late at night... I always wonder how can they see? Especially hunting those bushes. In the third picture the Great Blue Heron catches a tiny little crab... a lot of work for such a little prize. I did not have much hope that I would be able to publish any of these images because of the high ISO I had to set on my camera. Images ISO ranges from ISO 5,000 all the way up to ISO 20,000. Topaz Denoise AI came to the rescue to a certain extend. But then Jarek S. "Jerry" www.flickr.com/photos/162376953@N04/ told me about the new product that Topaz has released, Topaz Studio 2 which includes several filters including Clear AI which deals essentially with the noise ... I gave it a try and reprocessed all the pictures of this series with the new version of the Topaz product. In my opinion it is even better than Denoise. I purposely left all the file formats available (including extra large display) for those interested in looking at the performance depending on the compression. The noise handling is pretty good in some cases all the way up to extra large format... In that series, the Great Blue Heron continued to hunt even in the dark. I have shots taken at ISO 20,000 and they are still usable, especially if you post your images in a 2048 x 1365 format, something that many Flickr subscribers do. Can you guess which images of this series has a ISO of 12,800.

PS I only used the Clear AI filter software in its auto mode but the software offers a much greater functionality.

Many Thanks to Jarek for sharing one of his secrets of his wonderful photography....now I have to continue to dig in for more of his other secrets :) Have a look at his photostream when you have a minute... it is great

www.flickr.com/photos/162376953@N04/

Tags:   Hunting at the Blue Hour Great Blue Heron wild and free Victoria British Columbia

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I really liked the moment that I captured watching that Great Blue Heron hunting late at night... I always wonder how can they see? Especially hunting those bushes. In the third picture the Great Blue Heron catches a tiny little crab... a lot of work for such a little prize. I did not have much hope that I would be able to publish any of these images because of the high ISO I had to set on my camera. Images ISO ranges from ISO 5,000 all the way up to ISO 20,000. Topaz Denoise AI came to the rescue to a certain extend. But then Jarek S. "Jerry" www.flickr.com/photos/162376953@N04/ told me about the new product that Topaz has released, Topaz Studio 2 which includes several filters including Clear AI which deals essentially with the noise ... I gave it a try and reprocessed all the pictures of this series with the new version of the Topaz product. In my opinion it is even better than Denoise. I purposely left all the file formats available (including extra large display) for those interested in looking at the performance depending on the compression. The noise handling is pretty good in some cases all the way up to extra large format... In that series, the Great Blue Heron continued to hunt even in the dark. I have shots taken at ISO 20,000 and they are still usable, especially if you post your images in a 2048 x 1365 format, something that many Flickr subscribers do. Can you guess which images of this series has a ISO of 12,800.

PS I only used the Clear AI filter software in its auto mode but the software offers a much greater functionality.

Many Thanks to Jarek for sharing one of his secrets of his wonderful photography....now I have to continue to dig in for more of his other secrets :) Have a look at his photostream when you have a minute... it is great

www.flickr.com/photos/162376953@N04/

Tags:   Hunting at the Blue Hour Great Blue Heron wild and free Victoria British Columbia

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