An early morning encounter by the James River in Richmond, Va.
Yellow Warbler
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Hey Paul, not sure what brings you to that conclusion. There is some masking on the leaves in particular but I can assure it lives on the river.
Experience, in photography both analog and digital, natural history in varied distinct ecosystems.
I see evidence of "BAD" cloning of large areas in your image you have tagged both as wildlife and "Nature".
Within your reply I detect evasion to my comment, if not out right "deceit".
Paul,
Sadly your expertise has failed you in this instance.
Here's a link to the NEF: https://adobe.ly/48aZauc feel free to review.
Dave, look at the second leaf from the left border, then look at the leaf in the upper right corner. Nature doesn't do that, cloning software does, along with other fairy obvious repetitive patterns.
I don't play chess with pigeons. All the best.
Top comment. Sometimes AI is the mind of the commenter, not the tools used to produce something.
Paul Kister
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Go out and look at look at leaves on your trees. I think you'll find they grow in repetitive patterns. If there is any AI used here, it would not be for the foreground bird or leaves, it would be used in the total-milking out the background, but it is possible that happened naturally. If I'm being honest, I personally don't like the over-crispyness of the image, that may not even come across on smaller devices, in fact overly crispy may even look better on smaller devices. That is a trade-off one has to decide on. The overly crisp detail may even be why your commenting on this in the first place, that would be a much better critique, than yours. Not that either was asked for. I still would not go so far as to push the 2-button, at least not for a profile picture.
Hi Robert,
Fair take. The background is blown out due to distance, this tree is on one bank of the river, the back ground you're seeing is 150-200 yards away on the other.
Robert,
I know it comes down to personal preferences, and you did say you personally don't like "over-crispyness", but when I look at things around my eyes provide a high level of crispness [well, they did until I passed middle age :-( ], so why shouldn't I expect it in photos?
Personally, the more crispy the better.
Hi Ody
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Well turn up the 'usharp-mask' to 11 then. See this video for what I'm talking about: https://fstoppers.com/education/fine-line-between-editing-and-doing-too… and Dave posted his NEF file above, that I like so much better.
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Dave the tree leaves look suspiciously AI ?