Posts for: pecohen
Feb 14, 2024 09:46:51 #
Feb 11, 2024 17:31:50 #
kpmac wrote:
Nice set. Hope you are feeling much better.
Thanks, and yes, I'm better each day and now almost back to normal.
Feb 11, 2024 14:44:51 #
UTMike wrote:
Beautiful set!
Thanks for the comment. Nature is responsible for the beauty. I just try to find it.
Feb 11, 2024 13:53:54 #
It's been a pretty mild winter this year and today particularly so. Since mostly recovering from a Covid infection, I've been photographically attracted to the interplay between water and ice. Here is a selection of some shots I like best:
Feb 7, 2024 09:46:42 #
Delderby wrote:
It is probable that "good enough" refers to the general attitude of smart phone users rather than to photographers.
People take pictures for a variety of reasons. A cell-phone picture is good enough if your reason is to post a picture on facebook or elsewhere on-line. It's good enough if you just want a record of something. And if you have no other choice, then the cell-phone is good enough; better than not taking a picture.
If you are a professional photographer, a cell-phone picture is not likely good enough for staying in business. And if you do photography as a hobby, the cell-phone may not satisfy your interests, which may vary greatly from one person to another.
Feb 7, 2024 05:23:44 #
flyboy61 wrote:
I like them both, but to me, #2 works better...the dock leads my eye to the wooded edges, which funnel to the "mountain".
Why the quotes?
My Mom was from Ellsworth, and when she lived with us in California, she always referred to the little foothills as mountains!
Why the quotes?
My Mom was from Ellsworth, and when she lived with us in California, she always referred to the little foothills as mountains!
Word usage does change somewhat according to the landscape. What pass for rivers in the west would be called streams here in Maine.
Feb 7, 2024 05:17:30 #
JZA B1 wrote:
I understand that prime lenses usually offer higher image quality. But given the fact that people use smart phones to take pics these days and quality seems to be good enough, does it even matter that primes offer slight advantage while having major disadvantage of fixed focal length?
Do you still use primes at all? For what purpose?
Do you still use primes at all? For what purpose?
I nearly always have a zoom lens on my camera. But in addition to size and weight, prime lenses often allow lower f-stops and therefore the opportunity for stronger bokeh.
Jan 29, 2024 06:37:11 #
UTMike wrote:
Yesterday one of my neighbors invited my next door... (show quote)
A great set
The third one is especially striking.
Jan 26, 2024 08:15:45 #
NPSlover wrote:
Admin, please move this post as is appropriate. I... (show quote)
When you shoot JPEG, the camera applies the post-processing it it can to produce a decent image. Shooting RAW gives you a file that has all of the original information the camera captures, without any post-processing. Typically the RAW file will not look as good as the jpeg file from the camera. But often, with even moderate skill in post-processing, you can get better results doing your own post-processing and sometimes a much better result.
Jan 24, 2024 18:30:15 #
therwol wrote:
I have never produced a tiff in a camera. I see no advantage over RAW, especially if a tiff is 8 bit. I have thousands of 16 bit tiffs produced by a scanner, the best option for editing offered by my scanner. That's it. Different situation.
There is no standard algorithm for converting a RAW file to a TIFF file so using different editors you may get slightly different results. It's probably nothing your eye would notice but there could be slight changes in color and even in the size of the TIFF file. An advantage of opting for TIFF output instead of RAW that you would get more uniform results. This is nothing the eye would notice, but conceivably the differences might cause problems in editing, say when merging two images that used different algorithms to produce overlapping TIFF files.
Fortunately this is not something I've ever encountered; I nearly always use LR for the conversion to TIFF.
Jan 24, 2024 05:59:35 #
batchld75 wrote:
What is the difference in saving an image as tiff or jpeg? I generally capture RAW images, copy, and adjust with various software tools, then I have the option to save in different formats.
An important difference is the size of the files. TIFF files tend to be huge because they contain all the detail that you might need in editing. When you get done editing you probably should save the image as a JPEG file with high quality. Periodically I get rid of most of my tiff files, keeping only the ones I thing I might want for additional editing.
PNG files have the advantage of having a transparency layer, but that does make them bigger than a jpeg would be (use as needed).
Jan 20, 2024 08:29:23 #
Thanks for all your comments. They raise some issues I'd not even thought about.
Jan 19, 2024 06:41:45 #
Interesting. The first year I lived in Maine I saw what I later decided must be a golden eagle. However, the bird books I looked at seemed to suggest there were none of these in Maine. That was also what I found out in talking to "experts" but if what I saw was not a golden then I could not come up with an alternative ID.
Jan 18, 2024 15:13:49 #
Retired CPO wrote:
I'm over the hill? What hill??
Jan 18, 2024 09:22:39 #