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Collection: Birds
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Lens: Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)
Location: Oakland, California, USA
ISO: 80
Galleries: Digital Art, Birds
Date Uploaded: Aug 22, 2016

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Comments: 3
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 Set-up: Camera on tripod and pre-focus/set exposure on target area.

In this case I was zoomed-in rather closer than optimum because I was "stalking" a hummingbird I thought was roosted in those branches. Also, it was kind of windy which is why the leaves look funny.

I have a one-button movie mode on my camera; when I saw the bird headed in that direction I started the video -- it's less than two seconds long.

Processing:
Opened the video in QuickTime Player (I'm using a old Mac) which let me advance the video one frame at a time. As I got to each frame, I just copied it and pasted it into a new layer of a Photoshop document; in this case there were 19 frames, including one with no bird to use as a base.

Since I had a dark bird and bright sky I changed all the overlying layers to Darken mode, and saved the composite to a JPEG file -- simple really, once you capture the video.

I'm pretty sure if you shoot a white bird (e.g. seagull) against a blue sky you can just use Lighten mode instead ...

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 12/29/2017 08:11:16 PM
very cool
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 08/23/2016 03:22:00 PM
So how did you do this, General?

ETA. Thanks!


Message edited by author 2016-08-23 17:22:48.
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 08/22/2016 03:54:34 PM
nice one.
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