Bird Watching: Mostly Bluebirds, 0 by 2dCousinDave

2dCousinDave wrote:
Hi Burd. You have to create two or more different layers and remove the background on the one(s) you would put on top. Otherwise the background would block out anything below. I often get two birds in the same shot and with the short depth of field I get with the lenses I use, one of the birds is usually out of focus. Knowing this is likely to happen, I will switch focus from one bird to the other so I wind up with nearly identical shots, but with a different bird in focus in each one. Then I wipe out the background on one and combine them and magically, both are in focus. I do this a lot.

For a long time I have tried to catch a male cardinal in a nice pose on a dogwood tree but never have. I think I will take a picture of a dogwood branch and create a layer, setting the bird on my branch. Some would say it is cheating but if an artist can paint it the way they want it, why can't we create it with Photoshop?

Here is a brown thrasher that must be nesting nearby. I see him (or her) in the flower beds almost every day.