@hark Interesting. I find that shake reduction usually gives me strange, unnatural looking results. I use the high pass filter when things are a little unsharp and get very good results most of the time. Noise is a problem with both methods for me, though.
@adot45 on the original comparison was there any sharpening at all done to the before picture? Thanks for the comparison. If I get a computer with a more powerful graphics processor I am going to give Topaz a try.
This was taken at quite a distance, and is cropped quite a bit, but it came out sorta' okay. This Swainson's Hawk is making off with a kill, and a Red-winged Blackbird is in pursuit. I suspect the hawk might have grabbed a young blackbird.