picture of the day!

[Leisha]

I've only ever had a bird come in twice. One time, back in Yorkshire, we'd had a gas fire installed where the old fireplace used to be, so we had to dismantle it to free the bird...


I'm that desperate for a pet, I might just keep the next bird who enters this house.

[Overread]

GIANT SPACE MOTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



or rather a moth has been asleep on my cold window all day and now its dark! Turned off the lights in my room and used the flash to take this - worked really well (ps rather a lot of black has been cropped off )

[AE35Unit]

Thats a cool moth OR,probably a woodsman or similar grass moth. There's a tiny one called The Snout for obvious reasons. There's a lot of moths out there,mostly night fliers

[Overread]

Thanks AE - I took another shot of him to try and get his top wing in focus as well - though I think that the angle I changed to is just highlighting my dirty window.....

[AE35Unit]

Ah looks to be a female!
Moths are cool beasties,tho my other half freaks out if one comes in the house.

[Leisha]

Cool photo (the top one). When I first saw it, I assumed you'd uploaded a shot you found on some wildlife site. I didn't know you'd taken it.

[Leisha]

May as well post my lakeland shots from today. I haven't even really started editing and resizing them, since I'm so tired. But tomorrow I plan to make me some HDRs from all the RAWs I took today. (yes, OR, you read that correctly: RAWs ). But... I can safely say, after browsing through today's images, I HATE RAW. I don't understand how, but my images don't look as crisp or as vivid.

Ah well. I suppose in time I'll get there...


(Yes, too grainy. And I only had it on ISO 200... See, RAWs are weird!)

[Leisha]

And some more:



(see! RAW looks blurry!!!)










I wish there had been sun earlier on. It came out in late afternoon, but before that, at the lake (Wastwater), there was none.

[Overread]

you can tell AE??

might I ask how?

Are you a mothologist?

!! gah all those shots suddenly appeard -
Great shots = the first 2 are wonderful - and the last is very interesting
as for the RAW - RAW shots don't look "as good" as JPEG straight from the camera as a JPEG has the cameras own sharpening and editing applied to it - the RAW has none of this done to it (its part of the up side to RAW). This is because the camera built in software is never as strong or good as external solutions like photoshop and paintshop - so you do have to apply more processing to shots, but you get much better overall control and quality

[Leisha]

And the last one I could be bothered to edit:

[Overread]

Great shots = the first 2 are wonderful - and the last is very interesting = er last one before the last one - another just appeard!

as for the RAW - RAW shots don't look "as good" as JPEG straight from the camera as a JPEG has the cameras own sharpening and editing applied to it - the RAW has none of this done to it (its part of the up side to RAW). This is because the camera built in software is never as strong or good as external solutions like photoshop and paintshop - so you do have to apply more processing to shots, but you get much better overall control and quality

[Leisha]

Oops... sorry, I hadn't noticed your reply got lost in there.

Bah! I still hate RAW. I want sharpening and saturation applied to my shots, that's why I set them in the camera! And jpgs are so much easier to work with: I download my shots, preview them in Win. Image Viewer, then open the good ones and edit them. Et voila! With RAW I can only preview and open them in Minolta's own software, which is slow, and I have then save them out as jpgs (and sometimes more than one copy because I want to make a HDR).


Speaking of HDR - that "interesting" shot is one I made from my RAWs.

[The Ace]

Right enough AE35, the antennae of male moths tend to be feathery in appearance with multiple side branches (enhanced sense of smell to track female pheromones).

[Overread]

ahh you shall be converted to RAW oneday
I find that being able to adjust the exposure is = at times = very handy

[pyan]

Woot! You've been to Wastwater.

The view in the cropped photo with the three peaks and the lake is the inspiration for the badge of the Lake District National Park...and I've a photo from exactly the same spot!