brianholland

If you dont get a response soon on your caddis fly - try posting it again in the Water Life forum...

Hi Brian,

I read your thread re resizing your little owl shot. I copied it and adjusted it for you. You can find it in the "Image Gallery" under identified birds. Just left click on the photograph twice to open it to full size. Then right click and then left click on "save as" and place it on your desktop. You can then upload it into the "Gallery"

Ron

Hope you can read from the bottom up and follow this - have had to break it again as it still said too many characters! For flowers then its a case of keeping down to f5.6 so that the background is attractively blurred and the flower stand out - you may also have to physically flatten some of the growth before, around and behind the flower to get rid of a 'noisy' surround. Have a look at Lancashire Lads flower pics - he's perfected floral portraits! And as for old age - well sometimes it helps - cos you might have the time to experiment esp if you are retired and can really get to grips with having time out and about with a camera - nothing works better for learning than keep taking pics!! Good luck!

.... have broken my answer into 2 parts as you can only post so many characters per message! Most posters have a line under their pic which tells you what camera and whether tripod, ring lite, diffuser flash etc. Some don't but you could always do what you have done here and ask! As a very general rule of thumb for moving critters and birds I tend to stick to AV (aperture priority) 400 ISO 'film speed' and f8 aperture upwards. For birds the higher the aperture and the more light the better the end result and for flight photography you need excellent light - preff sunlight and a high speed to stop blur! Birds perched or moving walking slowly in my opinion look better in ambient grey daylight - sunlight and digital are difficult together in overpowering feather detail unless you are very close to the bird.

Hi and welcome Brian and thanks for the praise and encouragement - nothing works quite like praise in spurring on!!! I know camera information (sometimes called exif I think??) does tend to get obliterated during the editing process - or it does with my stuff - and I assume the same happens with others images. I suspect the only pics where original data is retained is that which is uploaded without editing? This I would never do! To my way of thinking all digital work benefits from 'after-work' on the computer. You can set you're camera up within its limitations to give you what your eye sees - but then software image editing does so much more to enhance that I would never consider not doing it to each and every pic. And if the pic was in my view a bit iffy in the first place - if it doesn't tidy up to very decent with editing then its gone in my book - but a lot of digital stuff rescues well as you willl see if you go to my zenfolio site and look at Tips and Tricks!

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Brian.