bobgilbody

I use Topaz AI.  It's good but: 1. It is much better to get it right in the first place rather than try to correct. 2. Photography becomes art when it does not record what it sees but when it ...

Thrilla I'm sure it is. I'll stick with the majority and proclaim myself to be the only person that understands why cauliflower tastes much better than cabbage. https://www.dpreview.com/samples/551 ...

Exactly hmvlover. I might wait a year a get the next model Nikon that rumour has it will go out by itself and take it's own photos loosely following human suggestion.

I might get one of these. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vyq304j4wE Don't watch the youtube thing unless you are prepared to spend money. One way to get decent BiF images.

Thanks Thrilla. Bob

Dear Snappa, Thanks for the explanation. Bob

Thanks Gautam and Red.

Thanks Gautam.

Thanks macrouser. Nos.1 I PP'd then applied 'Soft Mist' that is a pre-set option in Lightroom Classic.

Hello Bill, Got a late start this morning. The birds had been to another café for breakfast. A couple of Scaly Breasted lorikeets stayed a few minutes. Photos taken with Sigma 70-200 APO [ model ...

Thanks Morris much appreciated.

Thanks for the info Morris. I might just carry on doing what I was doing. Easy way out. All the best Bob

I have a Sigma 70-200 f2.8 that I have used for portraits. It's an older copy. I would have been close to minimum focus distance with the Cocky series of shots. I was using single point focus, AF ...

A lot of what this thread has dredged up is far from new. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas IMHO [ bullocks I'm a self opinionated arrogant geriatric that needs ring barking ] I see the ...

We are lucky to be in Australia Chris. Coming here was one of the few good decisions I ever made. The island looks a great place.

Did yet a further crop. I like the image because it allows me to see the bird 'better' than I could by standing next to it.

Thanks for the reply Kevin. I post photos to share the image. If some sad piece of doodoo wants to say the image is theirs they have more problems than me. I view the photos I take on a 32 inch ...

Still getting used the combo Kevin. Might try using the shutter speed setting instead of the aperture one. Thanks for the suggestions.

The guy that does the raptor show at O'Reilly's rekons owls can look at the sun. If it was me I would use flash.

Snapa made this comment in another thread: "I think what you need to keep your images down to 4-6MPs vs 20-30MPs for normal viewing on computer monitors when sharing any pictures online. Once you ...