On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Walter Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the tip, Bruce. It is much appreciated. > > I'd forgotten that I had changed my settings over to JPEG while I was taking > snapshots during the Super Bowl gathering I went to last night.
I tend to get around that by shooting in Raw and Jpg mode. I use the Jpg's to upload via jalbum and then adjust the Raws for the photos i want. Dave BTW nice Geso, i enjoyed the old barn shots. Dave > > -- Walt > > On 2/7/2011 6:58 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> Nice ones, Walt. I especially like barn-front (5426125455) and that >> curious dog (5426727734). >> >> Tech issue: in the doggy shot I'm seeing artifacts of the sort caused by >> curves adjustments on 8-bit images; stuff like stair-step transitions in >> all-white scenes where the pixels are up in the 240-254 range. Look at the >> snow behind the dog toward the top of the image. >> >> And I wonder if your exposure was maybe a bit too hot in the barn shot. >> Did you take a look at the histogram in PS when you were editing that one? >> It's got a look I see in my own images when the whites have clipped (too >> close to 255) and then vignetting is applied. You tend to get a kind of >> dirty grey look in those areas. >> >> Shooting stuff in snow is really tricky -- quite the balancing act. This >> is one area where shooting raw *really* pays off, with more dynamic range >> and headroom. >> >> -bmw > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
