Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - Printable Version +- Foto Friends (https://www.fotofriends.net) +-- Forum: Photo Forums (https://www.fotofriends.net/forumdisplay.php?fid=14) +--- Forum: Daily pub chat (https://www.fotofriends.net/forumdisplay.php?fid=10) +--- Thread: Tuesday, July 11, 2023 (/showthread.php?tid=647)

Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - Dave - 07-11-2023 Sorry I missed yesterday. The rest of the family (including Pippin) went to San Diego to visit my wife's Mom. She's in her mid-90s, healthy and mentally as sharp as can be - certainly sharper than I am. So yesterday I made myself a list of 5 tasks to do; ran out of gas and then fell asleep, but before that managed to get 3 of them done. In a Daily some weeks ago there was a brief discussion and some photos of birds in unusual positions, and I mentioned that I had several old ones. Finally found this one and reprocessed it earlier this morning - flipped it horizontally, recropped, tweaked the values and color intensity, and sharpened for posting. It's a Great Egret at the Bolsa Chica Wetlands Ecological Preserve, taken somewhere between 15 and 25 years ago...     You all have yourselves a good day. RE: Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - Man From Ironbark - 07-11-2023 Very well done Dave. Thanks for starting the daily too. I was wondering if I should. Here's a bird in an ungainly position. RE: Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - Dave - 07-11-2023 Hi MFI, and thanks. Yes, the position of that beautiful bird is awkward, but probably very logical and useful. Somewhere I have a photo of an audacious squirrel in a similar position, devouring the seeds of one of the sunflowers we planted. Next week the FIFA Women's World cup starts in your country (and New Zealand). Are you a fan of the game? Will you be watching? RE: Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - Don - 07-11-2023 Good morning Dave and Pete. Interesting bird photos to start the day.  Not sure what happened yesterday - I saw that several folks logged in (including me) but didn't post anything. I finally took my new to me Lumix point and shoot out today for a test run. I have to say i am just a bit disappointed. The RAW images seem to be pretty noisy, even in good lighting. I shot both RAW and JPG and actually the JPG images are better IMO. I had to do a bit of post processing on the RAW images to sharpen and remove noise. Here are some of the photos, just shooting whatever looked interesting. I will need to do a lot more shooting but it may not become my "travel" camera. I would still take it with me on the motorcycle. I was shooting at ISO 400 so I might drop it to 200 and see if that helps. Kind of spoiled I guess by my DSLR cameras. RE: Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - Man From Ironbark - 07-11-2023 Looks like a nice place to take photos though, Don. Musicians and artists. Here is a hover fly, not hovering but pollinating.