Also, with images of this caliber, you're doing yourself a disservice by not shooting RAW, unless of course you're simply happy to settle with what you hopefully perfectly either told the camera to do or what you relied on it to do for you.
There are plenty of things you just can't change once that image is recorded only as a jpeg.
thunderbird wrote:
Thank you noelle.
You know the reference I'm trying to make, right? It's the shot that looks like one of those hair product commercials (Finesse or Revlon??)
Andy
Yes, I knew exactly what you meant and I got quite a chuckle
Phyfe wrote:
Andy, Loved the shots esp the B&W that is just captivating. Would love to know your settings on some of these. I am new to animal photography and have been playing for the past few days with a pair of Osprey nest about 10 miles from my home. I would love to catch the fishing this summer while I am on the coast of Rhode Island.
On another note I am on a Mac book and visited your website, Love it except that it does not allow me to scroll the enlarged photos. I tried three different browsers to see if there was something that was browser specific with no luck. Love the concept but it does make for unhappy views on the laptop screen when you have great shots that are cut off. Just an FYI.
I use a fast shutter speed to freeze the action. Usually as high as the amount of given light allows. Aperture in general about 1 stop back from wide open for clarity. Basically everything else is pretty much played-by-ear meaning I change the settings on the fly as various factors change. It comes down to experience and practice.
About the website, I'm sorry. It was optimized for display resolutions of 1260x960 or higher. Nowadays most people use large screen monitors. It would be counter-productive not to take advantage of the higher resolutions of these monitors. I have a laptop too, but only use it when I'm on the road.
Andy, I will meet up with you someday and pick the heck out of your brain and techniques. If you see an old man with his Olympus focused on you and not the birds I am not a voyeur but just an old man studying. Great inspiration!
Absolutely not. I've never used that method to get my pictures and will never do.
"Also, with images of this caliber, you're doing yourself a disservice by not shooting RAW, unless of course you're simply happy to settle with what you hopefully perfectly either told the camera to do or what you relied on it to do for you.
There are plenty of things you just can't change once that image is recorded only as a jpeg."
Could you help me by pointing out the flaws in these images (if any) as a direct result of not shooting RAW? Appreciated!
Old Jim wrote:
Andy, I will meet up with you someday and pick the heck out of your brain and techniques. If you see an old man with his Olympus focused on you and not the birds I am not a voyeur but just an old man studying. Great inspiration!
Jim,
Thank you for the high praise. My brain's up for the pickin' anytime. As for taking my picture, I feel more comfortable being behind the camera, not in front of it.
Andy your camera work is is just like your web design....GREAT I thought the opening of the web was really nice with the sound tract. If I may ask what type of file did you use for the sound? I have only had luck with WAV files on my own web (down right now server moved) as they tend to be smaller in size. This is a very fine post
Lou
Jun 07, 2009 at 07:03 AM
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lbuscher wrote:
Andy your camera work is is just like your web design....GREAT I thought the opening of the web was really nice with the sound tract. If I may ask what type of file did you use for the sound? I have only had luck with WAV files on my own web (down right now server moved) as they tend to be smaller in size. This is a very fine post
Lou
Lou,
For all sounds on my website (music soundtrack, shutter click sound effects), I use high quality MP3 format. I created these sounds myself. For the camera click, I sampled a high speed exposure (1/8000) on the Nikon D200 then slowed it down using audio editing software to create that effect.
One of my goals for the photo gallery was to miniimize download times for users, while keeping the images at very large sizes that should fit on most monitors (19" or bigger).
. Thank you Oosty.