Quotehotrod4x5What software to do you have? Look for something called highlights and shadows. What you need to do is recover the details lost in the blown out areas. This can be done by reducing contrast as well. There are no details in the washed out areas to recover. QuoteI hate to beat a dead horse, but if you had shot that scene in raw mode...... These areas would have been washedby Dave - Photography advice, critiques and tutorials
Quotehotrod4x5...I just don't like the idea of my final image looking the way an engineer in Japan thinks it should look. (the guy who wrote the algorithm) I don't see it that way. I control the content of the photo, that's all that matters to me. QuoteRaw adds one small step, conversion. No, you can't just take the file and upload it to your online photo sharing site, you have to converby Dave - Photography advice, critiques and tutorials
There is a good discussion of this at; http://www.digital-photography-school.com/raw-vs-jpeg I have an expensive camera and shoot in jpeg. I've found no perceivable loss in image quality and I, usually, don't have to mess with it later.by Dave - Photography advice, critiques and tutorials
How do you do it? I have a great picture but the sun reflecting off of some water came out bright white.by Dave - Photography advice, critiques and tutorials
I used a cheap brand and the rodent used it as nesting material. The study was done with "Bounce" so maybe I'll try that. Or the varmits in my area like the smell of that stuff.by Dave - General Discussion
Have a Happy Solstice! It's the reason for the season.by Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I had someone tell me they will keep rodents out of your engine compartment. The little brats used them for nesting material. I guess they wanted to repel gnats too.by Dave - General Discussion
I could attend now, but it's going to rain too hard to make it worth it. I was on a practice Mariposa bird count yesterday. I counted over 20 species of birds. I think the total species count was over 50. It would have been much higher total bird count if the weather was better. Most of the birds were hunkered down out of the rain and cold. The peacocks I spotted did not count. Neither didby Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
QuoteeeekQuoteDaveThe next full moon is a lunar eclipse. The problem is that it rises Tuesday at 12:14am PST How could that be? The full moon always rises at sunset. It sure will rise around sunset. The eclipse will happen later, something like 0817 UTC, entering penumbra before that. We are 8 hours behind UTC.by Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
The next full moon is a lunar eclipse. The problem is that it rises Tuesday at 12:14am PST Don't forget the Geminid meteor shower tonight. This is a rare shower comes from an asteroid instead of a comet. That makes it rockier. Some reports say we should expect 50 to 80 meteors per hour. To find Gemini, where these meteors will appear to be coming from, find Orion. Gemini should be to the leby Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Figure $30/ounce plus at least $10 for the coin and you have a "quarter" that's sells for $160. I guess you have to go to a dealer since the coin is not on the Mint's website yet. While you're waitng I suggest this set: http://catalog.usmint.gov/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10001&storeId=10001&productId=15253&langId=-1&parent_category_rn=10211by Dave - General Discussion
QuoteFrank FurterThe new paradoxical paradigm is that gun violence will be reduced when more people have guns. Just like in the Old West when everyone carried a gun. They had no gun violence back then.by Dave - General Discussion
Quotechick-on Franky, What makes a "Sierra Nevada" Red Fox? A mommy Sierra Nevada Red Fox. The Vulpes vulpes necator is smaller and darker than the introduced Red Fox.by Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
It sounds like the marijuana was laced with PCP or something.by Dave - General Discussion
Let her have it.by Dave - General Discussion
I still prefer a 2D local positioning system.by Dave - General Discussion
QuotemrcondronBecause she's Hot!! Take off those beer goggles.by Dave - General Discussion
QuoteszalkowskiTopping my list of undesirable/dangerous critter encounters would undoubtedly be the Wacko NRA GunNut. Why does every topic have to come around to Palin?by Dave - General Discussion
Quotechick-onThat was my point. You have to really try to get bit by a Pacific Rattlesnake. They don't want anything to do with you. Thus my irritation when people start getting all worked up about them... Probably the number of people bitten by rattlesnake in Yosemite equals the number of cougar attacks. On the park radio I hear reports of rattlesnakes. I used to laugh but then I figured iby Dave - General Discussion
That made my cat jump. Apparently she has met a rattlesnake.by Dave - General Discussion
QuoteFrank FurterPerhaps this one? Snake Info or this one? Baha Rear Fanged The first one, the San Francisco Gartersnake. It's a very beautiful snake when it's just shed. I didn't know about that Baha Rear Fanged. That makes 3 posionous snakes in Calif. You only need to worry about one though.by Dave - General Discussion
Quoteeeek Red touching yellow can kill a fellow. There actually is one other venemous snake in California. I can't remember the name of it right now, but it is native to the San Francisco Peninsula. Before it became endangered (or because of it) they used to be kept as pets since they were very gentle, non aggressive, snakes. They have rear fangs and the posion isn't very potent.by Dave - General Discussion
Quotechick-onIf I had a dolla for every time I heard "I almost stepped on a rattlesnake".... That just shows the snake really isn't all that aggressive. Most of those that get bit are messing with the snake and it's just defending itself.by Dave - General Discussion
I got bit once. After three days of intense pain and agony, the snake died. I was leading a hike of about 20 people on a trail near Del Valle reservoir near Livermore. I was actually at the end of the line and called out for eveyrone to stop. Curled up next to a tree, about 5 inches off the trail, was a HUGE rattlesnake, (One of the ones in that area that have a green tinge to them.) All 20 haby Dave - General Discussion
That's a poker table. Look at all the cup holders.by Dave - General Discussion
QuoteCatalonian BurroI like the Tina Fey version. The real one scares the bejeebers out of me. It's her supporters that scare me.by Dave - General Discussion
That woman belongs in a mental institution.by Dave - General Discussion
That wasn't chickon was it?by Dave - General Discussion
Quotebill-e-g Here's a track I have that was taken near "the other" Eagle Peak: That's a cat track. Look at the shape of the upper part of the central pad and compare it to the longer, rounder, shape of the first one. Plus, it's kind of hard to get the size of the first print.by Dave - General Discussion
I'd say canine. It looks like toenails are showing. Cats have retractable claws and usually don't show claw marks. Also, a big cat would have an indentation at the top of the big pad, canine at the bottom.by Dave - General Discussion