Thank you, Frank -- and thanks for the kind words.
I guess looking at my photos at full resolution on a 24" screen revealed
a LOT of noise and, oddly enough, blur and a general lack of sharpness
in some images that looked much better to my on my old monitor. The
stuff I post here is typically top-drawer (for me), but there have been
images that I've shared on Flickr and Facebook that look just plain awful.
As to the eagle's call compared to the red-tailed hawk's, I never knew
that. I do remember the old Buick Skyhawk ads, and it does seem to sound
an awful lot like the calls used for eagles on TV and movie soundtracks.
I'm not sure I even know what an eagle really sounds like, come to think
of it.
Thanks again, Frank. Now, I figure I'll be able to see a lot of stuff I
missed before when doing my post-processing, and hopefully my photos
will benefit from it.
-- Walt
On 9/17/2012 9:02 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Like the photo!
And I don't recall seeing any of your photos that are anywhere near atrocious.
Don't be so hard on yourself! Your body of work (that I've seen) is of a very
high quality.
cheers,
frank
ps: Bird trivia: Eagles don't sound very majestic or impressive. Red tailed hawks do.
They have the best hawkish screech out there. So almost every time we see an eagle in a
movie or on tv and hear that screech echoing from our speakers, it's actually a
red-tailed hawk doing a "voice over".
-f
"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." --
Christopher Hitchens
--- Original Message ---
From: Walt <[email protected]>
Sent: September 17, 2012 9/17/12
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]>
Subject: PESO: Red Tail Hawk (?)
So, I've got this spiffy new monitor and I'm going through my images to
see how they look, and I'm absolutely stunned at how atrocious some of
them are! I'd been using an old 19" CRT up until now and had no idea
they were that awful. It's a wonder anything I ever shot came out as a
decent print. I wish someone had told me a long time ago. I'm thoroughly
embarrassed by some of the photos I thought were fairly decent.
That said, I also found this shot which I didn't realize I had. I think
it's a Red Tail Hawk, since it's hawk-like in appearance and has a
vaguely red tail.
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/7997746702/#large
In any event, I'm still a bit mortified by some of the images I've been
publishing under the misapprehension that they're usable photos. Makes
me want to scrap my entire library and start anew!
-- Walt
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