(Fuzzy) Scarlet Tanager on a Stick (AuroraHDR, Graphic Novel filter)

Cropped Original

AuroraHDR HDR edit

Graphic Novel filter

Colorized Graphic Novel filter

AuroraHDR smooth edit

Scarlet Tanager (AuroraHDR, Graphic Novel filter)

Cropped Original

AuroraHDR

Graphic Novel filter

Colorized Graphic Novel filter

AuroraHDR soft edit

Scarlet Tanager

I saw a scarlet tanager within the past few days. They don't come by very often, or for very long. Thanks for stopping by and looking at my pictures! :)

Scarlet Tanager on the Bird Feeder Pole (AuroraHDR, Graphic Novel filter)

Scarlet Tanager (Redo with Graphic Novel filter)

I had earlier processed this image with the Dry Brush filter on Photoshop Elements. I took the Dry Brush image and Graphic Novel filtered it. Originalish image is first, Graphic Novel second, and colorized Graphic Novel third. Thanks for stopping by and looking at my pictures! :)

Scarlet Tanager Eating Jelly (Graphic Novel filter)

This Scarlet Tanager was raiding the jelly that I had left out on the feeder for the Orioles. Thanks for stopping by and looking at my pictures! :)

Colorized Graphic Novel filter

Cropped Original

Graphic Novel filter

Scarlet Tanager by the Jelly Jar (Graphic Novel filter)

This image is another redo attempt, in which I'm taking my old photos and giving them a re-process, this time using AuroraHDR, and then Photoshop Elements' Graphic Novel filter. Thanks for stopping by and looking at my pictures! :)

Scarlet Tanager Redo (Graphic Novel filter)

I haven't seen any Scarlet Tanagers around lately. This picture is from a few years back, edited recently with the Graphic Novel filter. Thanks for stopping by and looking at my pictures! :)

Original crop

Layered Graphic Novel

Colorized Graphic Novel

Scarlet Tanager on the Jelly Bowl (AuroraHDR, Graphic Novel filter)

Of my three edits on the Scarlet Tanager on the Jelly Bowl below, I like the black and white Graphic Novel filter (4 images layered together) best, mostly, I think, because it removes the unsightly bowl of jelly that I had set out for the birds. (The first image is the AuroraHDR, the second is the BW Graphic Novel filter, and the third is the colorized graphic novel filter.) Thanks for stopping by and looking at my pictures! :)

Scarlet Tanager Looking Away from the Jelly Bowl (AuroraHDR, Graphic Novel filter)

Here is another photo edited from the Scarlet Tanager's visit a few days ago to the jelly bowl on my deck. Thanks for stopping by and looking at my pictures! :)

Scarlet Tanager in the Jelly (AuroraHDR, Graphic Novel filter)

I don't see Scarlet Tanagers quite so often. It seems like they only show up during a brief window at a certain time of the year. (Or, they're really good at hiding, which I imagine would be hard to do when your body is red.) Thanks for stopping by and looking at my pictures! :)

Scarlet Tanager Posing (Dry Brush Filter)

I realize that this has become the story of my blog, but... as I was going through my older pictures, I found another very nice image of a Scarlet Tanager. I like the bird's pose (here on my clothesline post) and the detail that I can see in its eye. Thanks for stopping by!

Scarlet Tanager in a Tree (Dry Brush Filter)

Normally, when I process my photos, Photomatix is the first place I take my raw image file. Then, I take the resulting TIF file over to Paintshop Pro for crop/straighten (and other edits), and then to Photoshop Elements for some sort of filter application. For this picture (and a few others as of late), I brought the image file back to Photomatix last in the process.

Something I am beginning to learn to watch out for is the purple fringe that you sometimes get with the HDR processing. Paintshop has an edit to automatically take the purple fringe out, but this edit doesn't always leave you with a clean edge (sometimes leaving behind the non-purple elements of the fringe.) Photomatix does have an option at the end of the process that you can tone-down colors that you don't want (to get rid of the fringe on this image, I had to take out the purple, blue, and magenta); however, you have to make sure that you don't want those colors elsewhere in the photo!

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Scarlet Tanager with a Jelly Jar (Dry Brush Filter)

I had been trying to attract the birds to my deck with a jar of jelly. It didn't really work as well as the bright orange bird feeder, but here is a Scarlet Tanager checking things out. Thanks for stopping by!

Scarlet Tanager (Dry Brush Filter)

We did not have a very great window with the Scarlet Tanagers this year, maybe only a couple of days. (This picture was from a little more than a month ago, May 18. I am about a month behind in my processing and posting.) The little squiggly lines that you see all over the photo were something that I found in processing, something that reminded me of a Vincent van Gogh painting. (Ok, this is not van Gogh. I simply thought about van Gogh as I looked at this picture.) Thanks for stopping by!