Silent Time Witnesses
by MargaretNet

Comment:
I like the shot... but you missed some letters in your title...

goofy historical icons
by cutout

Comment:
Why is a cat with a camera sitting on his head?? Will this happen when I'm famous??

kiss
by jagar

Comment:
It was a 7 from me -- but only because I know the blue car is secretly cheating on an orange car!

Ye Olde Pharmacy
by h2

Comment:
Seriously?? I sneak into the top 10 and you're there before me?? I'd been watching the whole time when I've been gone, and you haven't been there. And now I try to sneak back in, and you get there first?

Argh!!!

(lovely shot, btw. :)

Lilac
by chesire

Comment:
Oh that's fun! I love the dof and the colors. Have you tried using a polarizer on shots like this? I never realized how much a polarizer helped with highlights on leaves. (You probably already know about it, but it shocked the heck out of me the first time. I always used it for skies. :)

1060121 - He Came in Through the Bathroom Window
by pixelpig

Comment:
whoa.... freaky!!

Dreams of Flight
by vawendy

Comment:

Originally posted by HarveyG: Wendy congratulations and I am happy for you for your ribbon. I am fully aware of the skill and patience needed to capture BiF but am I the only one who sees it or is brave enough to mention it? (giantmike touched on it). The PP is not your finest hour. It is heavily pixelated, so much so that actually steps can be seen in the pixels (easily visible if you increase your LCD brightness), both the background and the leading edges of the wings and white area of wing tips. Many JPG compression artefacts, haloing and odd speckles, dots above the head and leading edges of the wings. I would hazard a guess that you've "heavily" cropped the original to get the bird in the 800px frame and/or used some plugins to improve/remove flaws but in turn that has emphasised them. Typically DeNoise and Smart Sharpen or USM enhance these problems when there is low pixel quality to begin with. Regards, H.

I think it happened in the denoise process. The lighting was really poor, and the shot was quite noisy. I ran it through topaz denoise, and I think it happened there. The problem is, I have pretty bad eyes, and I don't see these things. Even after people point it out, I don't see it here. When I blow it up, I start to see it a bit. But it's not something I would have noticed. (I'm getting better at seeing halos, but this type of thing still is really problematic for me eyes.) As I mentioned in the comments, though, I really wished I had more time -- I did think I could have gotten something better. Maybe I was seeing the issues and just didn't realize what they were...

Message edited by author 2013-06-15 09:04:29.

Rodeo to the Sky
by gyaban

Comment:
ahh.... much better! I knew there was an explanation coming. :)

Thanks!

(congrats again, btw. :)

No Looking Back
by cynthiann

Comment:
Very cool!!!

Don't look back
by Judi

Comment:
So lovely! Bet they love that shot!! Congrats on the yellow!