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Tufted Titmouse: Expand Canvas\/Clean-up Magic<\/h3>\n

During one of our Photoshop sessions on the NOV 2012 Bosque del Apache NWR IPT, participant John Haedo shared the neatest-ever expand canvas technique with the group. When I tried it yesterday morning while preparing to start work on our latest MP4 Photoshop Tutorial video, I was stunned at how well it worked on expanding canvas left in the image presented here. Additional efforts included dust-spotting with the Spot Healing Brush, and using the Spot Healing Brush, the Patch Tool, the Clone Stamp Tool, and a series of Quick Masks to clean-up the perch and to a lesser degree, the bill. I ran a 50\/50 NIK Color Efex Pro layer of Tonal Contrast and Detail Extractor on the bird and the perch and painted out the effect on the bird’s breast using a Regular Layer Mask. All as described in detail in Digital Basics<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Tufted Titmouse just finishing wing stretch, Elizabeth A. Morton NWR, Noyac, NY. With the tripod-mounted Canon EF 800mm f\/5.6L IS USM Autofocus lens<\/a>, the Canon 1.4x EF Extender III (teleconverter)<\/a>, and the Canon EOS-1D X digital SLR <\/a>. ISO 800. Evaluative metering -1 stop: 1\/200 sec. at f\/10 in Av mode.<\/p>\n

Here, uncharacteristically, I was working in Av mode. Why? The sun was going in and out every two minutes; working in Av Mode at -2\/3 or -1 stop was easier than making the larger changes (more clicks) that I would have needed if I had been working in Manual mode. Working at close range is the time to stop down a bit as depth-of-field is at a minimum, here measured in small fractions of an inch. Focus on the eye and let ‘er rip. <\/p>\n

Central sensor (by necessity)\/AI Servo Expand\/Rear Focus AF active at the moment of exposure. I had the central sensor on the side of the bird’s breast on the same plane as the eye. Click here<\/a> if you missed the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a larger version. <\/p>\n