The Photography Thread

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[Moonfish]

Hmm, to follow Sarge's imagination I see a gray whale and her calf in the clouds (heading leftwards)...   

Beautiful cloudscape!

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Hmm, to follow Sarge's imagination I see a gray whale and her calf in the clouds (heading leftwards)...   

Beautiful cloudscape!

Now, that's too much of a stretch for me.
Thanks, Peter.

[Moonfish]

Now, that's too much of a stretch for me.
Thanks, Peter.

Nah! It is very obvious!!     Really.... 

[Mookalafalas]

Nah! It is very obvious!!     Really.... 

  I agree (although I wouldn't have "noticed" it without your comment).
Anyway, wonderful series, Karlo.

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Nah! It is very obvious!!     Really.... 

  I agree (although I wouldn't have "noticed" it without your comment).
Anyway, wonderful series, Karlo.

Well alright, but still the 'calf' looks more like a stingray to me...

Thanks, Al. Incidentally, I thought about entering the Finnish Nature Photograph of the Year competition (after seeing the not frighteningly high standards of award winners in recent years..) - but they want original files and I don't have those for most of my photos because of limited disk space. Oh well, if I'll take a good photo in the future, I'll probably make sure I save the original file. 

[Moonfish]

Well alright, but still the 'calf' looks more like a stingray to me...

Thanks, Al. Incidentally, I thought about entering the Finnish Nature Photograph of the Year competition (after seeing the not frighteningly high standards of award winners in recent years..) - but they want original files and I don't have those for most of my photos because of limited disk space. Oh well, if I'll take a good photo in the future, I'll probably make sure I save the original file. 

Oh, you should enter, Karlo! Your shots are wonderful!  Hmm, so you compress your files thereby losing the original camera "signature"? Is that the issue?

[Moonfish]

And are you up at 5am?   

[North Star]

Oh, you should enter, Karlo! Your shots are wonderful!  Hmm, so you compress your files thereby losing the original camera "signature"? Is that the issue?

Pretty much, yes - I shoot raw files, which need to be edited, and then save those as JPEGs.

And are you up at 5am?   

I hate my roommates. 

[Moonfish]

Pretty much, yes - I shoot raw files, which need to be edited, and then save those as JPEGs.

So a professional photographer always has to keep the original file to be able to get credit for the work?

[Moonfish]

I hate my roommates. 

Playing Finnish Metallica at 5am?   

[Mookalafalas]

So a professional photographer always has to keep the original file to be able to get credit for the work?

  To make a large, high-quality print you need a large file size--so those are usually required for publication or contests.  Different places have different standards, but 10MB is pretty common (well, from my limited experience).  I shoot raw too, and always keep my original--for "good photos". I delete as many as possible--although not nearly as many as I should.  I have two hard drives for photos--one is a backup. I have about 120K pictures saved.  About 1% of those may be good enough to show to other people (hence my 1200 or so pics on flickr).  I delete about 60% of what I shoot, but would be wiser to delete 80-90%, but it's hard to kill your babies

[North Star]

So a professional photographer always has to keep the original file to be able to get credit for the work?

  To make a large, high-quality print you need a large file size--so those are usually required for publication or contests.  Different places have different standards, but 10MB is pretty common (well, from my limited experience).  I shoot raw too, and always keep my original--for "good photos". I delete as many as possible--although not nearly as many as I should.  I have two hard drives for photos--one is a backup. I have about 120K pictures saved.  About 1% of those may be good enough to show to other people (hence my 1200 or so pics on flickr).  I delete about 60% of what I shoot, but would be wiser to delete 80-90%, but it's hard to kill your babies

Around 4-12 MB for my full-size or so (24 MP, 4000*6000) JPEGs. My percentage of 'keepers' might be a bit higher than Al's, but I agree with the sentiment.

Playing Finnish Metallica at 5am?   

Not quite, but they're bad enough.

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Explored again


See Mandy Disher's wonderful floral photos here

[Mookalafalas]

Explored again

Deservedly so! Congrats on that. I love getting a flickr explore...

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Deservedly so! Congrats on that. I love getting a flickr explore...

Thanks, Al.

No. 30

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No. 31

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Ordered this about five minutes after learning who Karsh was...
          
           
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Al (and anyone else interested in street photography) might be interested in Critique Portfolio Pro's interview with Thomas Leuthard

https://www.flickr.com/groups/ngproinvitation/discuss/72157650162186279/