Halina123

I ignore numerical DXO scores.
What matters to me is how nice the images look. And this is difficult to measure numerically.

Boring??? It was only when I downloaded the image at home that I realised that the poor horse is chained and has very little freedom of movement. I was far away on a footpath.

This is an image taken at maximum zoom from a 30X optical zoom pocket camera. And here is a magnified image taken at the wide angle end, similar angle of view as a smartphone.

And the roof of this little library has a cactus garden.

I'm into woodland photography at the moment. It's the fresh air, piece of mind, relaxing, getting regular exercise thru long walks, meeting polite like minded  people who also enjoy the walks. And ...

Cameras are like shoes or shirts. When going out, I choose which camera I think is appropriate for the situation.

Fascinating, I learn something new every day.

I think it's made out of real wood and hand painted.   First one like this I've seen in the UK.  I wonder if they are more common in other countries. Inside there is a book and pen for signing out ...

Do we remember when libraries were large municipal buildings which were the pride of town/city centres? With recent closures and downsizing, I think we're near the bottom.

Spot metering is for people who know exactly what they are doing.  It measures the brightness in one spot. Matrix metering is where the camera splits the image into several sections and analysis ...

From my limited exif file read out. The manual image used spot metering, a slower shutter speed, a standard mode and a manual WB. The auto image used a matrix metering, a higher shutter speed, a ...

The c-160 is so out of date and has no zoom that any decent smartphone will beat it for image quality. Bin it!!!!

With Olympus I shoot raw+jpeg. What programs I use for PP depends on what needs to be done to an image.  And these programs strengths & weaknesses. OV3 is very slow in developing JPEGs. Faststone ...

I love using faststone for jpeg editing. It is surprisingly flexible and I find the shadow/highlight recovery better than some raw developers.

I didn't notice the girl in the bottom left corner until I downloaded it.  And there is another partial face behind her.

A few from my recent visit to an 'urban farm'. I would say that the animals looked cleaner, healthier and in better shape than the local mothers with children who were visiting the place.

Another from one of my recent walks. Here I emphasise the grass in front of the main building Here the length of the building itself. Modern art.  I do not understand???! I was under the flight ...

And any temporary life that appears.  These were gone a few days later.

My current favourite is local dark woodlands. Very peaceful and relaxing.

Dark and gloomy is the mood. The small sensor cameras don't have high resolution in these conditions.  But it's the mood that matters. This was the camera JPEG with normal graduation. This is with ...