* The Weekly Image Thread 25 05 18 #971 *

19andrew47 · May 18, 2025

Welcome to the Weekly Image Thread!

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Cloudforest · May 22, 2025

Lovely set. I particularly like the Martins and the Egrets.

DickyAus · May 22, 2025

Woke up at dawn to see this - and had the wrong lens on the camera

This is the other half

The two images could not be recognised as a pano.

All I can do is put them side by side.

Yes, I could adjust the lighting to get a better match, but I wonder why the software wouldn't help.

By the time I got the right lens the moment had passed.

Dicky.

dt27348 · May 22, 2025

Thanks Roy.

I've never had a Bronica set up Roy. Sorry.

Dave

dt27348 · May 22, 2025

Thanks Pete. I've chased dragonflies for years without success until now. I'm quite chuffed.

Dave

dt27348 · May 22, 2025

A really good set of images. It was nice of the cormorants to fly past in formation.

Dave

softmarmotte · May 23, 2025

The garden's looking good after 3 months with not a drop of rain (are you listening Dave ?)

geum

cornflower

iris

wild carrot

deutzia with bee

foxglove

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dt27348 · May 23, 2025

Garden looking very nice Rich. We've had 5 weeks without rain but it's looking like it will rain tonight. At least I won't have to water the garden after dinner.

Dave

19andrew47 · May 23, 2025

or ICE or Hugin too! The second image is a bit underexposed compared to the first (different shutter speeds) and shifted vertically as well. To me it looks like it was shifted too far left and no overlap to allow the stitch leaving a hole in what ought to have been.

Still it must have been impressive to see and having just woken up and given how fast things like that change I can only say, been there - done that, but with different skies!

I tried to combine then with the software I had by expanding the frame of the first to the right then pasting the second image into the expanded frame, leaving a gap and filling it in afterward. This could likely be done in PS with their Ai features and looked perfect but alas I am too cheap to pay as much as they want for it Dicky!

so they line up but there is a missing gap. If brought together the right side is too large for the left side clouds

filled the gap by hand but the exposure differences in the skies is blotchy!

19andrew47 · May 23, 2025

Thanks Dave.

Andrew

19andrew47 · May 23, 2025

Thanks Rich.

Gamma adjustments are easily made in PSP. From the adjust drop down menu, brightness, histogram adjustment. There the gamma can be adjusted for all colours or by R, G, or B separately. The lowest and highest values can be adjusted or the curve adjusted by hand as well. I only adjusted the gamma value for the example I showed. At times I have used all the other adjustments for certain images. Most often they don't do what I want and I just use the gamma adjustment to improve overall levels which often benefits contrast in the image.

I can not recall if this was in the older versions of PSP or not but I don't think it is new. Seems like I have been using it a long time!

Andrew

19andrew47 · May 23, 2025

Thanks Roy.

Andrew

19andrew47 · May 23, 2025

Thanks Pete.

That seems to be the consensus. I think I have a predilection for darker images!

Andrew

19andrew47 · May 23, 2025

It looks large and you did well Dave! I don't think I have gotten that close to one with a camera in hand!

Andrew

19andrew47 · May 23, 2025

The cherry blossoms are lovely as is the glimpse of the old town! Welcome aboard!

If I am not mistaken Darktable is a Unix platform software. My dabbling in Unix was brief and long ago!!

Andrew

Rich Z · May 23, 2025

Thanks, Andrew. It's there in PSP x8 just as you describe. I need more contrast these days.

I wonder if my pictures look doctored now that I can't see as well and am hitting the PP hard so I can see them, and likely missing it when they have noise. Color has faded for me too, so they are likely too saturated. Of course, I can't see it. Rich

19andrew47 · May 23, 2025

A fine set! The egret images are great catches! I have not seen purple martins here in many years. When we moved to this home 37 years ago there was a martin house on a pole behind the house. As time moved on the tree in the yard got large and too close to the martin house for their use. They abandoned it and other less welcomed tenants moved in. Over time the house collapsed as the plastic deteriorated and the tenants destroyed it.

I miss the martins. Natural mosquito control!

Andrew

19andrew47 · May 23, 2025

Good to see Rich. Into our third straight day of rain here now. Not sure how people in the U.K. get on with all that rain. At least they don't have to water their gardens though!

Andrew

19andrew47 · May 23, 2025

Brave man! Pretty good success rate too! I rarely ask but on occasion I will.

Good result in the first.

Andrew

19andrew47 · May 23, 2025

Well the noise is there at times Rich, but I really don't see too much colour. If anything I think the colour may be less than you used to do with the flowers but then again my memory may be playing tricks on me. The Nikon images often look pretty straight up, but with perhaps more noise than they would have if totally straight up.

My taste in images seems to tend to the darker end and a lot of the processing I do seems to end in that direction with the subject highlighted, but still perhaps too dark for most people, and the rest fading into darkness. This is for things like flowers. Landscapes are pretty much straight up but with contrast and perhaps fill or vibrancy adjustments.

Andrew

dt27348 · May 23, 2025

Thanks Andrew. Anyone coming across me lying on the ground would have probably thought I was in need of medical attention.

Dave

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