well if i tell you , i will have to ….. ha ha
first i crop the way i want excluding anything not adding to the photo .
then i let topaz denoise clean it up .
a repopulation with topaz gigapixel. gets me back to a decent resolution.
then i usually use a software program which is pretty old called LUCIS ART .
back in the days it sold for 600 bucks and it was a program that enhanced detail in a way no other program did .
they eventually sold the software to a medical firm and today it’s thousands and it’s used to enhance x-ray detail .
i bought it more than a decade ago when they were closing for 99 bucks .
sfter a quick pass in LUCIS i adjust colors , back ground and sharpen in lightroom and photoshop.
i actually can do all that in 2 -3 minutes.
typically i use my 70-200mm f2.8 z lens … but since my wife and i both shoot and recently both bought the nikon 28-400mm for travel , i wanted to compare how it would work out at the zoo which tends to be lower light areas .
she took my 70-200 and i took the 28-400 which past 200 is a f8 lens .
my isos were super high .
hers were a fraction , so while still at the zoo i had to order her a nikon 70-200 f2.8 z lens from b&h for a few thousand dollars .
talk about a costly day at the zoo
