Monday, November 24, 2025 | By: Jim Zuckerman
This image was an experiment. In Brazil's Pantanal, I captured these monk parakeets from a significant distance with 700mm of focal length. They were very small in the frame. I cropped the image from the original 128 megabytes down to 10 megs. I then used Topaz DeNoise AI followed by Topaz Sharpen AI. Finally, I used Topaz Gigapixel to increase the resolution 4x to make the final image 168 megs. While the final result isn't as finely detailed compared to a closeup non-cropped image, given the extreme modifications it came out pretty good. The camera settings were 1/4000, f/10, and 3200 ISO.
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Nov 25, 2025, 1:19:34 PM
Jim - What camera did you use?