Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
I'm just starting to process pictures taken at last Sunday's Los Angeles Zoo shoot. Here's one image with the first Nikon DSLR I've held in my hands.
This the crop of the center of the image by 1.4.
Asher
Bonjour AsherAsher Kelman said:Just to get a feel for the robustness of the Nikon files, I applied an S curve, enlarged the file by 400% with bicubic smoother in CS2 and then used the unsharp mask at 38%, 73.4 pixels followed by 196% at 0.6 pixels.
This image, uncropped, would be 240 dpi at 4ftx6ft, a 1.09 GB 16 BIT file!
Here there’s a little edge pixel artifact on the proboscis but otherwise I'm impressed. No attempt was made to attack the movement halo on the back, which was present in the original hand held image.
Well, as a long time Canon user, I'm impressed!
Asher
Asher Kelman said:Just to get a feel for the robustness of the Nikon files, I applied an S curve, enlarged the file by 400% with bicubic smoother in CS2 and then used the unsharp mask at 38%, 73.4 pixels followed by 196% at 0.6 pixels.
This image, uncropped, would be 240 dpi at 4ftx6ft, a 1.09 GB 16 BIT file!
Here there’s a little edge pixel artifact on the proboscis but otherwise I'm impressed. No attempt was made to attack the movement halo on the back, which was present in the original hand held image.
Well, as a long time Canon user, I'm impressed!
Asher
Bev Sampson said:Anyone else experiencing this or is it me.
Asher Kelman said:This the crop of the center of the image by 1.4.
Asher Kelman said:Could someone let me know that they can download the file?
Asher have used "exotic" letter such as % in the name of this image, fatal error!Bart_van_der_Wolf said:Same at my end, using MS IE.
Bart
Dierk Haasis said:Asher,
The first one tries to capture your intent based upon the crop you used originally, the second is obviously my interpretation of the shot. What I like about the close crop - the reason I included it - is the halo you are a bit anxious about. You may remember that once I wrote about a technique I sometimes use to create a magical air [in short: use flash as balanced fill]; your halo around the mantis is exactly what I am going for. Instead of getting rid of it, I enhanced it while enhancing the mantis itself.
Dierk Haasis said:My own interpretation goes for the praying part in the common name of the species*, giving her a bit of room in front as if there's something just 'round the corner'. I also use a layered counterpoint,
Dierk Haasis said:there's the red-green, two diagonals meeting at the mantis [bright leaf and mantis is one, the second is the stalk to the left, mirrored by the stalk in the middle] and the bright-dark contrasts.
Dierk Haasis said:The diagonal established by the mantis and the bright leaf to the right gives the impression that the leaf is not plant part but prey [the mantis looks at it].
Dierk Haasis said:*Actually it goes for both variations: praying and preying.
I think its different than that, it could well be that the Mac has it wrong. afaik, the most widespread standard for URI's can be found here - http://www.w3.org/, perhaps specifically at http://www.w3.org/Addressing/Thanks for the comments so far and the Claris&*^%$#@!~fication on the limitations of IE A good thing for Mac users to know about.
For now, Ray, I'm happy to keep within the guidlines to make it easier for W users to see my posts!Ray West said:Hi Asher,
Do not ask me anything about this, all I'm saying is that I have no idea if it carries any weight, or if IE, Firefox, Opera or Mac browser complies with it. However, there needs to be a standard somewhere, and I think W3 is the most likely to succeed.
Best wishes,
Ray
Ray West said:Do not ask me anything about this, all I'm saying is that I have no idea if it carries any weight, or if IE, Firefox, Opera or Mac browser complies with it.
Ray West said:(that's today's rant out the way, similar to yesterday's I guess ;-)
Absolutely not! Count me in too .Ray West said:Thanks Bart, we are not alone ........
Just checked with Firefox 2.0 on Mac OSX.Asher Kelman said:Any updates on Firefox working with OPF?
Asher