Dec 23, 2006, 17:20
I think you do have RAW and manual exposure figured out. 
The PS work wasn't too hard. I duplicated the background layer, and erased everything from the new layer that didn't look like a heron. I moved the new heron to the left and flattened the image. That left the original scene with 2 herons in it. I cloned out the old heron, and painted in the missing tree shadow with a soft brush.
You could do a much better shot with the high resolution original than I did with the little jpeg.
The PS work wasn't too hard. I duplicated the background layer, and erased everything from the new layer that didn't look like a heron. I moved the new heron to the left and flattened the image. That left the original scene with 2 herons in it. I cloned out the old heron, and painted in the missing tree shadow with a soft brush.
You could do a much better shot with the high resolution original than I did with the little jpeg.