SmoothOperator

Its good practice.

A lot of it has to do with Denoising though down sampling and jitter are important. See how even with a relatively fast lens, that is a very dark image.  Dark images are inherently noisy. Here I ...

It doesn't require that fast an aperture for those kinds of shots. Out of the camera from zoo, probably f4.5,nothing special.

Some of those might not even be the original background. Something simple you can do to clean up the background is to denoise.  You can really see the sensor noise in the background bokeh, that is ...

I liked my Exilim. Excellent consumer camera. Very well built very compact and small yet with a heavy metal frame. The UI and presets actually made sense and the optics were great. No images...

I have had the buckle and harness for about a week.  I highly recommend the pairing. What I do is put the camera in the buckle then I tuck the lens handle into the cross strap on the harness, this ...

I thought we was asking about long lenses, not long big and automated ;)

I think I am in same situation as you. I generally just carry it with my left arm, but it gets old, and I feel it prevents me from getting a good exercise in. I have also started riding a bike, ...

I don't think I would ever do it.  I tend to photograph in the same places often, and I assume the same birds and foxes.  Doesn't seem like a good idea long term.  I'm pretty sure the Osprey ...

He was beating the tree like a drum. Has anyone noticed the light is a bit different these days.  I think with so much less traffic in my area there is less pollution.  I think the pollution tended ...

I do use camouflage.  I am not fooling anyone, especially eagle eyes, but I get the sense that subjects are less stressed for some reason.  It doesn't make any sense, people generally interpret ...

I would really be insulted if you liked the bokeh ;)

I've had some plans to do underwater photography for a while.  Just sort of rolling around in the back of my head, when …. (don da da DAH!), there was an underwater housing and a cell phone water ...

The bark has a unique characteristic, which I kind of like.  The color is very true, and the shadows aren't too dark.

I think the last post, there was a bit of an occlusion, which I kind of fixed in this shot.  This nest is popular, and there haven't been many good shots.  There is a sign up now, no getting ...

I don't think any amount of gear will obviate the need to process images correctly.  Its like one of those fractal zooms where the detail is chaotic.  You can zoom and zoom and zoom, but its still ...

I am wondering what to do about processing images where the subject is fuzzy with many small hairs.  I feel like I run into a basic resolution problem, where the detail is smaller than the ...

Those colors are fabulous.

If you scale the scene.  EG if you have a still life scene say with cubes, then create and exact replica of the scene except for half size, with the same centered position, and take a picture of ...

After thinking about it for a minute, scaling the scene doesn't change the perspective, nothing is occluded(like moving toward or away), and all of the scene angles will be exactly the same, just ...