Reilly Diefenbach

Both number two and three are much better shots.  Number three could use a makeover, but talk about right place, right time :^)

A nice shot, but too many tree boughs, not enough canyon for my liking.  Of course, moving forward to frame the shot better would have resulted in a severe lack of any future output from the photog...

Part of a broad front attempt by republicans to kill off the Postal Service and turn it over to big donors and private contractors.   Along with the education system, the prison system (well under...

I must agree to no such thing. There is in fact a filter, just not a conventional blur filter.  Warning, the usual input sharpening routines from your old workflow may be counterproductive, the "e"...

Craig is being as nice, as usual, but I believe very few of these one-sided horror stories are real or complete in the telling.  Exaggeration and outright fabrication are as rampant as ever on the...

This has gone on way too long and you're in a loop I want nothing to do with.  In error now, just as you were with your Tamron 70-300 debacle a few weeks back, where you went on and on ad nauseum. ...

It's a Macaw.     A D700, really?  One third as many pixels?  You're out on a limb and sawing hard.   Why don't you rephrase that correctly:  I, Robert Shotcents can't see a difference between...

Part II. You have to admit, the DXO interface leaves a lot to be desired. I keep bugging them, they keep not making it easy to use, I keep complaining, and round and round we go. I have spent...

No, sorry, the DXO NR isn't much to get excited about, not anywhere near as good as Topaz Denoise, which is also much better than LR4's, which I don't use other than the default chroma NR 25 on the...

Do not presume to tell me what I know or don't know. I've had DXO longer than you have in all likelihood, and know just how to use it. For Nikon, the "DXO Default" raw conversion is dark, muddy...

Oh boy, you euros are really putting up a strong showing in this thread.  Perfect framing, plenty of height, fantastic view, the whole package, except it isn't big enough.  Try 6000 long side if...

Yes, that is undoubtedly true.   I am well satisfied that at least in the case of my D800e that what Adobe makes of the raw using Camera Neutral or Standard plus a few tweaks is a juicier, more...

Consider what you're implying here, that Adobe, the industry standard photo editing software company since forever and the overwhelming favorite of demanding graphics professionals the world...

DXO is a long, long way behind LR4/5 in every department except lens corrections, at which LR is quite good. DXO Default raw conversion for Nikon is simply dreadful compared to ACR. It is as well...

You're king of the jungle :^)   Ara Ararauna  It's good to be King!

This is right on the money.  I've worked with CNX2 for years and only sometimes and with a large amount of back and forth USM/High pass twiddling can I get the artifacts down to an acceptable level...

It's a macaw, not a parrot! :^) Eyeball crop

Getting USM correct on a case by case basis for a file that needs it is indeed a fair amount of work, as we all know perfectly well.  I haven't touched or needed to do any USM in PS for over a year...

I use the resolution and contrast of the D800e on every shot, every day.  Here's the "e" Bite :^)  This camera with an appropriate lens has no peer as a recorder of fur and feather until a 50MP...

To amplify a bit: I'm not selling my 35D, because it puts out a very nice landscape with pretty high contrast, rich color and beautiful sunstars at sunrise and set.  Infinity rendition is good, and...