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(C)Raw rulez! Visited the original file, and with very carefully applied bibble5 (that really rocks) highlight recovery in small regions on the horse I got http://markus.spring.googlepages.com/dsc12914_3.jpg That core sharpness is constantly amazing me. I guess the 70-300G is to blame for this? Mark...

The back of the horse is blown out, (or, at least, looks it on this rubbish monitor!), which is a shame. Is it there in the RAW data, or is it lost forever? :( Possably some losses during resize, it does not have much visible structure due to the blur/out-of-focus. But it is quite away from pure wh...

I found this traditional orchard 10 bike-minutes away from my home. It was cloudy that morning and the light not as accentuated as I would have hoped for, but it turned out to really support that soft mood. And the next day rain set in and all that beautiful blossoms were swept to the ground. Lesson...

One of my big dislikes about film is having to choose the ISO well in advance, without knowing for sure where I might be... ... I'm happier keeping "auto" iso on! Yes, one of the big advantages is that additional freedom in ISO. For me shooting is interesting when there isn't full dayligh...

Ossie wrote:Just pictures of bikes that I thought looked interesting.

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The shadow here indeed is nice!

The sky is indeed marvellous here, very decent and not oversaturated. Compositionally the image suffers a bit from that large dark block in the lower right. I would probably try a more extreme vertical ratio crop, like 1:2.

Regards - Markus

the cool toning of the monochrome version is quite attractive for me - emphasizes the forms and takes away that crowded feeling of the color version

Regards - Markus

This matches my experiences when using high ISOs: 1600 gives a good IQ with +0.7 exposure compensation, of course carefully watching the highlights then. Without this compensation, the shadows easily become too noisy and postprocessing can not help out too much any more. Of course loosing 2/3 of an ...

Congratulations, Allam2009. It is really something special when one's photography gets recognition from the 'outside world'!

Post-PMA doldrums, much? Mid-Pollinosis doldrums is here! (Though my daughters would never apply the term 'doldrums' for such a violent sneezing as mine...) I was shooting a wedding 2 weeks ago, not on assignment but as an additional service for the groom: http://markus.spring.googlepages.com/dsc10...

Gustav, thanks for the detail information. It looks like a quite careful, minimal-invasive workflow to me.

An amazing shot of wonderful clarity and colors. As Yildiz said there is some loss of detail in the feathers, but there are possible explanations for this. Gustav, what kind of processing do you do? What kind of software? Sorry for beeing nosy, but such excellent results make me want to know a bit o...

One of my first shots with my then new Tamron 11-18:



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Kevin, bakubo, Dr Harout: thanks for your friendly comments and your images. Maybe just some words on the fisherman in my pictures: The east cost of Sri Lanka is in terms of mechanisation, commercialisation and tourism a "undeveloped" region. The main reason is the civil war raging in the ...

Congratulations, well deserved title with this dynamic shot!

Markus