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Got up early this morning to go take pictures at the Audubon Garden Swamp. It was overcast and misting rain, but I decided to stick around and try out my homemade rain cape. It was a tad awkward, but worked fine. After I'd been there about an hour I suddenly noticed my left thumb was stiff, and...

Here are some backyard birds. In order, a downy woodpecker, tufted titmouse and a northern cardinal.

Really good work, Woody.

I shot a few birds at the backyard feeder, and no sign of the offending spot. I got lucky. I remember something about a reference photo option and thought I'd check it out, and then found the pixel mapping near the sensor cleaning option. I suppose the pixel mapping service Nikon offers would...

Well, I think I fixed it. There is a submenu under the wrench icon that is Pixel Mapping. I ran that and took a couple test photos. The spot now seems to be gone.:)

I would not be surprised if sensor damage becomes a more common issue with mirrorless cameras. Having said that, I have no idea if it was just one of those electronic failure things, or physical damage. If it were physical damage, I would expect to see a larger area affected. I try and be very...

I've got my old D3400. It's a bit of a comedown, but gets the job done. Summer is coming, and I won't be getting out shooting as much. I suppose I could dig out one of my old Pentaxes and get a few rolls of Fujifilm. Or not. Fred, I would love one of the Z8s, but I really can't justify $4K on...

The one year warranty is up. It actually started around the time the warranty expired, but didn't realize there was an actual problem until the other day, thanks to LR and PS hiding it. I did a little more research and found that Nikon's mid tier service includes remapping sensors. It runs $73...

Well, it looks like I have some dead pixels in the sensor on my Z5. They are too small to see unless the image is either cropped or enlarged a good bit. I saw it a while back and used a rocket to clean the sensor. I thought that solved it as I couldn't see after taking a test shot. I appear that...

I was looking through some older files and discovered an image I had not edited. Once I brought it into LR I discovered why. It was just a little too soft. Now that I have Topaz AI Sharpen, I thought I'd see if it could rescue it.

We've started seeing the common house geckos here in South Carolina lately. In fact, a couple days ago, I walked out on the front porch and witnessed a geckogeddon (Hint, do a search for "Llamageddon".). OK, it was just a handful, but since I saw one last year for the first time, it rather...

I used to love picking up old woodworking hand tools at flea markets. I would take them home, fix them up and sometimes use them. Product photography is not my thing, but perhaps I'll dig one out and take a shot before the end of the month.

I used the remove tool to take out the clump of "grass". The horizon was almost perfectly level and on the lower 1/3 line to begin with. I think the content fill uses a little to much repetition in this case. I tried a couple ways using the remove tool, and nothing looked as natural as this...

When I was shooting the picture of the herons, I was aware of the trunk behind the bird and tried to change my position to get background separation, but was unable to do so. I was shooting from the bank of a pond and there were limited areas with a clear line of sight to the cypress in the pond...

More backyard birds. This robin was pretty brave, although he kept a close eye on me the whole time he was scarfing up spilled seeds from the feeder.

Here's another one. I took this picture a year and a half ago. My editing skills were in their infancy, and I didn't have some of the tools available then. I used Topaz Sharpen to crisp it up and remove noise, then used the new remove tool in PS to get rid of the radio tracker and tethers. The...

Look to the left of the beak on the standing heron on the left. There is the stump of a branch behind it. I was able to easily remove and smooth it with a couple clicks. This was something very difficult to do with other tools. Here is another. There is a distracting stump on the left of the...

I just tried out the new remove tool in the latest update. I was very impressed. Is this the feature you are referring to? You right click on the bandaid icon and select remove. Then paint the area you want removed. It automatically fills in based on the surrounding background. Here is a...