This is a ruby-throated hummingbird I photographed in Tennessee. The original image showed the bird fairly small in the frame. I cropped the 128 megabyte image from my Canon R5 down to 3.2 megabytes so I could fill the frame with the dynamic red color the males of this species are known for. Of course, a 3 meg picture isn't anything to write home about. The resolution is significantly compromised. So, I applied Topaz Gigapixel AI using a 6x enlargement, and that gave me a file that was 119 megabytes. I then applied Topaz Sharpen AI followed by Topaz DeNoise AI, and you can see the results here. Pretty impressive. I used three flashes for this image -- two on the hummingbird and one illuminating the out of focus print background. It turned out I didn't like that background in the photo, so in Photoshop I replaced it with a foliage abstraction from my files. My settings were 1/200, f/20, and 320 ISO. Later this month, this hummingbird along with all his friends will fly about 1000 miles, mostly over open water, to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico for the winter.
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