NRW (P1000 RAW) Processing

 

Oct 28, 2019 | Example 3 : Seagull

Distance ~ 60 m

Original Pictures :
[P1000 Hand held]

Click ...
- on picture below for full size original embedded
JPG,
- here for full EXIF info,


S- mode, 1/250 sec, ISO 800, F/5.6, 1000 mm (35mm equiv.)

Processing :

Nikon ...
CaptureNXD
Topaz Labs ...
Denoise AI : Remove Noise 1.00, E S 0.30, Recover Detail 0.55 ->
Focus AI : Remove Blur 0.20, Supress Noise 0.90, Add Grain 0.00

Original JPG click here

 

Oct 22, 2019 | Example 2 : Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)

Distance ~ 7 m

Original Pictures :
[P1000 manually hold against vertical door frame, 3000 mm Zoom, ISO 100]

Click ...
- on picture below for full size original embedded
JPG,
- here for full EXIF info,
- Here to download original NRW file
(25.2 Mo)

Processing Capture N-XD, Topaz Sharpen AI V7 and Topaz Denoise AI (see example 1 below for procedure detail)
Click on pictures for full size !

 

Capture N-XD output image JPG (Of course I use the 16b TIFF for further processing) ...
nxd parameter file for Capture N-XD



...
then Topaz Denoise AI (0.60 0.40 0.20)
Output image in JPG (Of course I use again the 16b TIFF for further processing)

... then Topaz Sharpen AI (FOCUS RB 0.15 SN 0.30)

... then Irfanview for +255 Saturation (final result)

Note :
I don't know how this goldfinch detected that I had installed this ned feeder with niger grains ?
I have not seen any around for years !


Oct 16, 2019 | Example 1 : EAGLE
(The work below represent about 15 hour experimenting with different softwares on a 2018 very fast gaming PC)


Distance ~ 10 m, see situation below at (equ. 35 mm) 1100 mm zoom

 

Original Pictures :
[P1000 hold on top of 70 cm wood pole, 3000 mm Zoom, ISO 100]

Click ...
- on picture below for full size original embedded
JPG,
- here for full EXIF info,
- Here to download original NRW file (25.2 Mo)


Processing with Topaz Sharpen AI V7

The software (trial 30j) opens directly the NRW file.
It permits 3 different processing types : Sharpen, Stabilize, Focus

Note 16b TIFF output are huge ... about 110 MB !
I won't put them here as you can obtain them easily with the Topaze Labs Trial from the NRW file !

Shown below are the results after many many trials using split screen, as saved in 100% quality JPG
and processed with auto-adjust colors in IrfanView :

 

SHARPEN, RB 0.90 SN 0.15

 

STABILIZE, RB 0.45 SN 0.30

 

FOCUS, RB 0.5 SN 0.70

The above results are interesting in term of detail but the reddish colors are far from what I saw with my own eyes !


Nikon Capture N-XD gives, I don't know why !, colors much closer to the reality ...
Then let's open the NRW with it and convert to 16b TIFF first (for later processing with TL) !
Below is the result when settings no processing in Capture N-XD :

and below is the result when processing previous in Topaz Labs
STABILIZE, RB 0.50 SN 0.95


Finally I tried to mimick above result playing with Nikon Capture N-XD parameters and got this image
(parameters saved in Eagle.nxd file ***) :


*** Just load the NRW in Capture N-XD the load the .NXD.

The final touch on above image with TL, FOCUS*** RB 0.30 SN 0.80 is my final result I am happy with !


*** FOCUS worked much better than STABILIZE in this case !