Love the owl work Geoff.
We saw one tonight around 0200; close as I got in a while.
Before seeing the owl we'd done a night hike up a mountain on the Appalachian Trail getting to
dark sky. Well dark sky for the east coast...we do what we can with it.
First shots with the A9. ISO400, 100-400 GM with the 2x at f11. I apologize for the really harsh light, but it's been pure sun and blue skies here for days, so there is only a short period of time each day with light that isn't harsh.
Scott
Given an a7riii and a9 for Milky Way I choose the a9, so the other night hiking for the Milky Way I carried the Loxia 21mm since it's little and not to heavy. Here's a shot about 45 min's into the hike
Thought I'd posted this one. Old age Forgetting what I've posted.
Anyway this a juvenile RTH in an interesting pose...cooling off I think, it was 90F
Saturday
Spent the day on Norris Lake just outside of Knoxville, TN. What a great day. Saw some bald eagles, but they were not close enough to photograph. However, did find some wild life to shoot.
Sony a9, metabones 5, Canon 70-200 2.8 IS II. Peformance was really good.
scott f wrote:
First shots with the A9. ISO400, 100-400 GM with the 2x at f11. I apologize for the really harsh light, but it's been pure sun and blue skies here for days, so there is only a short period of time each day with light that isn't harsh.
Scott
This is an awesome shot...great clean dual colour background, pleasing perch and having the butterfly prey is awesome. I do find the posted version over-sharpened with details looking "crunchy"...this could be too much sharpness, too high a radius and/or too much Clarity.
That is just MHO but thought I'd pass it along as it struck out at me immediately.
arbitrage wrote:
This is an awesome shot...great clean dual colour background, pleasing perch and having the butterfly prey is awesome. I do find the posted version over-sharpened with details looking "crunchy"...this could be too much sharpness, too high a radius and/or too much Clarity.
That is just MHO but thought I'd pass it along as it struck out at me immediately.
I agree 100% However, can you shed some light on your processing for this website. Years ago, I could post images after running them through a little sharpening and resizing action and they looked great. However, at some point, Fred changed something and most of the time, my images look soft, even though they look great on Facebook or my website. I just struggle with this site.
timgangloff wrote:
I agree 100% However, can you shed some light on your processing for this website. Years ago, I could post images after running them through a little sharpening and resizing action and they looked great. However, at some point, Fred changed something and most of the time, my images look soft, even though they look great on Facebook or my website. I just struggle with this site.
I'm not happy with how my images look on this website especially on 4K/5K large desktop monitors...they seem to look better on my older iMac and on my retina MacBook Pro. I use LR and use Export for Screen, sharpening High. Steve Perry had a PS sharpening action I used for awhile and it looked better by a little bit but I don't like having to involve PS in my workflow unless I need Content Aware Fill or expanding the canvas.
Lately if I really want to show the sharpness of a camera/lens/TC I link from my Flickr page where the IQ is much better.
arbitrage wrote:
This is an awesome shot...great clean dual colour background, pleasing perch and having the butterfly prey is awesome. I do find the posted version over-sharpened with details looking "crunchy"...this could be too much sharpness, too high a radius and/or too much Clarity.
That is just MHO but thought I'd pass it along as it struck out at me immediately.
Thank you for your comments! To be honest, I’m stumped when it comes to posting here. I can’t figure out how to make them look “right.” I’ll try posting something today and see if I can do better.
CritterRacing wrote:
fantastic... teach these fellas how to process will ya lol.
Medicineman's image is very nice. However, it looks like it's a link to a Flicker account. What I want to know is how to upload images here that look as good. As Arbitrage said, linking to other accounts seems to be the best way to get nice images here. I'm just wondering if there is something I can do so that if I upload my images, they will retain the same quality. I can start linking them if I can't find a more suitable processing recipe for posting here.
Critter I'd listen to Geoff. He's got it figured, as usual.
When I post up here some look really sad compared to my 4K monitor
here in the house.
Flickr does a much better job at hosting.
But if you ever post up anything at DPreview get ready to be shocked. It is
abs. horrible there.
POTN does a better job than DPR, but Flickr is best.
i put the time in and figured it all out. took some time though. had to run dual monitors, my 5k imac and a 27" apple cinema display. i have no issue now having fred host my images. when your working with a 4 or 5k monitor when you want 100% veiw in lightroom you need to zoom to 200 percent.
Standard monitor 100 % view. Id have to same image on both monitors and average out sharpening setting and what not. Now just about everyone is on their phone or a high end monitor at home viewing Fred. Now i just use the 5k for everything and got rid of dual monitors to save some space.
I stopped using my retina macbook pro for any photo work at all i just hate it. i do view fred 90% of the time on it though.
Geoff and Steve p. have helped me more then any thing else. heres a link to my gallery all hosted here on fred.
Facebook changed something and i love the way my images look there. i just upload full size 100% jpg weather 40megs or 4 and facebook does it thing. i even stopped uploading to my zenfolio account.
I do wish fred would offer the option or just make it available to all that we can upload more then 1.4 megs. total per post. That is very old fashion considering what harddrive and hosting space cost these days.
We should all get together as this community and set a size limit for uploading lol. All the scrolling around and zooming in and out with all the different size images is a pain in the ass. I know there is a size out there but no one adheres to it. My sizes are mostly 1200pix on the long side for bird shots and 1600 for landscape shots.
i always thought DPR was the worst until i started pressing the " original size button " on the bottom of the image. now i think it looks great but its another step of opening another browser and waiting for the download. but some full rez shots over there look stunning.
