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We got several really nice pix, the Sun was up and rising, little more to do so I started putting the gear away when Chris yelled look at the birds... A large skein of Geese flew up the Leven estuary. About 180 birds, just as I was putting the D300 away. I grabbed the camera and let off a few exposures but the camera was still on 7 frame 0.7 bracketing from the sunrise... So I have a bunch of photo's of them with perhaps two usable. There is about one and a half minutes between the Sunrise and the Geese exposures!
I want to combine a picture of the geese and the best of the sunrise into one image. The birds are largely black or close to it.
What I don't know is how best to extract the birds from the sky background, I know I can squash them and place them on a layer in front of the main image OK, but it's how to extract the relatively small birds from the sky background without spending an age cutting each one out and yet to make it look realistic.
The best of the sunrise pix... D300S Nikkor 18-105@ 18mm, 2500/sec f10, ISO400
Flock of Geese... D300S Nikkor 18-105@ 62mm, 250/sec f10, ISO400
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Robert.