Your best shot

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Daniella said:

Zoo Dad said:

Daniella said:

Zoo Dad said:

But here is one I had printed at 24x36.

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wow, was it not pixelated at such large size? did you use some
sort of resizing software like genuine fractal or the like?

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Nope, I just took the original file into print. It looks fabulous!
This is full frame, Daniella. I found this Juvenile Redtail one day
in the summer. I couldn't believe how close he let me get. I got
tons of flight shots, poses, he was a great find.

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yes a great find. it's good to know that 8mp is enough to produce
a good quality print of such large size. was the print expensive?

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$18.92 Cdn at Sams Club.

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There is a very fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'.

It is a single exposure, 30 seconds at ISO 800. The sky was actually pretty noisy, but with careful RAW processing, and curves adjustment in PS2, I was able to minimize the noise. Then by masking out the rocks, I was able to use moderatly agressive noise filtering with Noise Ninja to smooth out the sky.

I actually took this photo over a year ago, but was never happy with how it came out. A week ago, after a years worth of learning photoshop, I gave it another try, and in 15 minutes, I finally had the picture I wanted. I still want to play with the sky a bit more to make the stars stand out more starkley, but its a tough tradeoff with noise and foreground/background contrast.

It looks even better on 13x19 print with my i9900, and I just sent it off for a 20x30 poster with ElCo.
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Dan F

a few of mine

Not my very best but latest (your only as good as your last image?)