OldGuy-Yuri

Thanks! Getting images with something as a dimension/scale 'tell', in Red Rock can be difficult - thankfully...   LOL! The image with humans, was from a prior visit. I included it for that very reason.

I'm on the fence about using them, half of my bodies have them, the recent purchases not yet... I spend most of my photo time in natural outdoor settings, and the cameras do get bumped around a ...

California, a land of Polarity, all reachable within 1 day. From Mediterranean seas to Alpine Mtns and Deep forests - in the middle of much of it, harsh desert of wonderous variety. Red Rock Canyon ...

I've never found the color picker method for WB/Temperature in Photoshop to work effectively, for me (except for B&W). Prolly would do the same, for me, in Adobe Raw. Best is to use a color temp ...

...ugh... looking at images again... need to remember to not do PP late in evening, when tired... Mt Whitney , 14,500 ft - viewed from Alabama Hills approach, 4200 ft. Mt Tom, 13,658 ft, from the ...

Now we get a chance to dry out for a couple weeks. There's some longterm thinking that early Feb can bring some precip again, but nothing like the past 3 weeks. Good thing! Was really concerned for ...

True, that. or like bright/white flower against a deep bkgrnd,  Great Egret in a dark field of plants.. anything where most tones are at both extremes of the DR....  :-| Ultimately it comes down to ...

JFIF compression is the WHOLE thing - 1st is color transform to YCbCr, then the Cosine transform to 8x8 block in each channel. The Quantization of the Y channel is an important part of this, ...

We hear/read this in the forums all the time. But if one really considers how the JPEG/JFIF compression works, the compression is 'weighted' differently than being heavy at either end of the ...

Hi, Wanted t say I very much like all your posts and images. I appreciate old architecture very much. Materials out of stone and earthen blocks. Except for some interesting steel.  Except for some ...

The Sierras, finally in a strong winter. From my Ski Trip this week, to Mammoth Mtn. Just after 8 to 11 Ft ( 2.4 - 3.4 m) of snow from 2 enormous back-to-back storms. Mt Whitney - 14,500 ft ( 4420 ...

In the interest of savings 'space' and creating scrolling tedium - my comment above edited down... We, various people, have different vision and different things which strike us as important, and ...

Things don;t happen in an 'ON/OFF' manner. We didn't reach a human population of 8 bil in one step. Our affects on the planet didn't happen over night... IF, we, you and I consider that the ...

Not sure what 'nicely exposed' means... 12 bit color may possibly provide 68,719,476,736 colors, but that's not anywhere near what a camera might actually record, as math info, in a RAW file. The ...

Ok, maybe... But the way I understand, RAW file is just the 'data dump', as captured by the camera/sensor. It then requires a 'data interpreter' which reads the data - those interpreters are ...

Yes, Thanks! Sometimes I miss the obvious... LOL! I should have gone to 'prefs' right away. In there are the settings for RAW for what is used for display. That solves the ORF displayed file size & ...

Yes, was thinking along those lines, in theory... only 16 mil color variance in 8 bit... But possible color depth doesn't necessarily tell you what the reality might be. One can have 16 bit (or ...

Move over Alice... make some room... LOL! SO, I've accepted that RAW has more INFO contained in the image than JPG. Of course, when you compress with data removed, you're gonna 'lose' something... ...

Whatz the plan for London/how old are your 'kids'? Is it a 'photo focused' trip or touristy, will you be doing indoor stuff as well as 'street' and the usual tourist attractions? Expecting much ...

The world I live in is imperfect, as is the 'space' within which we and our awareness are. My photography is really all about me paying attention, to the place I happen to be moving thru and living ...