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  1. Harold Stiver

    Juvenile Gull- New Zealand

    Is the attached image a juvenile Black-billed or Silver? Thanks!
  2. Harold Stiver

    Birding Guide to Orkney

    My latest book "Birding Guide to Orkney" is now available! It comes in two print editions, one in colour and an inexpensive B&W edition. There is also a Kindle edition. If you wonder how a Canadian writes an Orkney Birding Guide, it is because my wife is Orcadian and we have spent a lot of time...
  3. Harold Stiver

    How to photograph Fireworks

    I did a bit of study and experiment to work out good methods to photograph fireworks and tried them at our local Canada Day celebrations. With the U.S. July 4th coming up, I thought I would put some of this information in a short post. How to Photograph Fireworks I hope this is not too far...
  4. Harold Stiver

    Photoshop Tutorial- Motion Blur

    I've posted a short tutorial on the use of Motion Blur. It deals with the two main approaches...Subject Blur and Background Blur. Photoshop Tutorial- Motion Blur Best wishes for the New Year, Harold
  5. Harold Stiver

    Intersex Mallard

    What is your opinion of this bird? It has characteristics of both sexes for Mallard. It is also in an area which has a lot of hybrid MallardXBlack Duck. Thanks
  6. Harold Stiver

    HDR Lite

    I have been working on a project that requires a lot of dynamic range which is a natural for HDR processing. The final result couldn't show any of the results of this processing, no artifacts, oversaturation or low contrast. I'm happy with the procedure I ended up using and have a tutorial on...
  7. Harold Stiver

    Image stacking with macros

    I have been looking into Image Stacking with Macros to solve the shallow Depth of Field and found some excellent software about for it. See some information at following Macro Image Stacking There are some amazing images being produced using this. I am only at the bottom of this learning curve...
  8. Harold Stiver

    Photoshop Tutorial: Secrets of the Crop Tool

    Our 18th Photoshop tutorial is on some interesting things that can be done with the Crop Tool in Photoshop. Photoshop Tutorial: Secrets of the Crop Tool I hope you find it useful. ..Harold
  9. Harold Stiver

    15 causes of poor images and how to fix them

    The following link is to a feature about the common technical errors in photography, and how to avoid or fix them. The more experienced won't find anything new but it should be useful to the beginner and intermediate. 15 causes of poor images and how to fix them
  10. Harold Stiver

    Burn Your Landscapes!

    I have posted our latest Photoshop Tutorial #17 which involves Color Saturation with a Color Burn. This is an easy and effective technique that Magazine Photo Editors often use. Not something for every image but good for a lot. Photoshop Tutorial: Color Burn for Landscapes
  11. Harold Stiver

    "Green" Trillium

    I ran into a large patch of "Green" Trillium while on a tramp through the woods. They are actually White Trillium which have been infected by something called mycoplasma-like organisms. They range from green radiants to entirely green flowers, some have twisted petals and a few had 6 petals...
  12. Harold Stiver

    Pelee to cull Double-crested Cormorant.

    Point Pelee National Park plan on starting a cull of thousands of cormorants on Middle Island starting this week. I have an item on my website concerning this: Double-crested Cormorant Culling Issues I am against this, but I would be interested in hearing contrary opinion. ..Harold
  13. Harold Stiver

    5d2 video with 1400mm of glass

    I often see the remark that "if you want to make movies, get a camcorder" rather than have the feature in DSLR. This overlooks the best feature of having HD movie mode available in DSLR, the ability to use your whole lens lineup from macro to super telephoto. I did a short test with my 500mm...
  14. Harold Stiver

    A Quick Cast Correction

    The 16th Photoshop Tutorial in my Photoshop Workflow Series is on Cast Correction and includes a downloadable Action Quick and Dirty Color Correction Cheers, Harold
  15. Harold Stiver

    How to make a HD HDR Timelapse

    I recently made a High Definition (HD) High Dynamic Range (HDR) Timelapse, which turned out to be an interesting winter project. It took over 12 hours of processing to produce about 1 minute of video. If you are interested in the step by step details and the result, have a look here...
  16. Harold Stiver

    Backing up your files-Software and Hardware

    The latest section in the Photoshop Workflow Series concerns Backing up your files-Software and Hardware Cheers, Harold
  17. Harold Stiver

    Photoshop CS4-Content Aware Scaling

    I upgraded to OS CS4 so that it would recognize RAW files from the Canon 5D2. The best new feature in the upgrade is Content-Aware Scaling
  18. Harold Stiver

    Plumage information needed on Long-tailed Duck

    The LTDU is unusual in that it molts three times a year. Can anyone point me to information on the molting sequence for male and female (preferably with illustrations)?
  19. Harold Stiver

    “Male” plumage in older female Greater Scaup

    I thought members might find this bird of interest. In their website citation for Greater Scaup, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology say: “Occasionally an older female Greater Scaup will have male-like head color and male patterning on her back, but she still has the typical white face patch of a...
  20. Harold Stiver

    Photoshop Tutorial - Selective Sharpening of a web-sized image

    I've posted the latest tutorial in the Photoshop Workflow series which is on Selective Sharpening of a web-sized image This is an easy method to keep out those nasty artifacts and halos Cheers, Harold
  21. Harold Stiver

    Great Gray Owl - An HD Presentation

    I've put together a short (2 minutes plus) HD Video on Great Gray Owl I invite you to take a look at. Great Gray Owl For those interested in details, it was done by cropping a series of stills to HD size (1440X1080px) and rendering them in a video editor. Music and sound effects were added...
  22. Harold Stiver

    Canon 5D Mark II: My first videos

    I have used the Canon 5d2 for a couple of days and I've posted some videos with some comments on my experience using the movie mode. They were shot from wide angle to 700mm Some Canon 5D2 Videos and comments I'll post some comments on the regular aspects of the camera in a couple of days if...
  23. Harold Stiver

    Organizing your Photos

    The latest part of the Photoshop Workflow series is on Organizing your Photos This is one of the best things I've done to save myself time. I used to search in multiple places trying to find certain files, but I can easily find any of over 50,000 images in seconds now in either Lightroom or...
  24. Harold Stiver

    My Photoshop Workflow

    As an exercise in working out the most logical and efficient method of processing images I have summarized my ideal Photoshop Workflow Each section will have tutorials linked to it, of which about half are done. If anyone has any comments, especially if you want to suggest some improvements...
  25. Harold Stiver

    Photoshop Tutorial- Processing A Backlit Image

    Our latest Photoshop Tutorial is of special interest to nature and bird photographers. If you've tried to process an image like a bird in flight, where the subject is dark and the background is washed out, you may find using Levels or Shadow/Highlight leaves halos or artifacts. Here is a easy...
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