Stefan

Thank you very much for that. An eye opener, and very grateful for that. I keep learning new things everyday with you all and I am really grateful for that.

I have just started using gimp but before that I just avoided everything to do with images, editing etc. I knew once I leaned into it I would want to go deep and thats what I have done now.

And in fact I should have a copy of photoshop somewhere around tucked so i will dust it off and install it again. It might be quite an old version but it should do for now, provided I manage to dug it out. I remember a few years ago when I started having a look at it i found it to be pretty intense with a lot of possibilities but in order to explore it all I felt that I needed to dedicate a bit more time to it.
Well, now that time has come and I definitely want to extract as much as possible from it.

Thanks a lot for the image, it sure looks much better than the way it was after you worked on it.

Thanks again

Amin

I think I nailed the problem. My server had a glitch and added some weird characters so it all went pair shaped. Just uploading again.

Stefan ) is that really the same picture? Gosh what a difference in sharpness, what did you do to it? Please explain me, would love to learn that

thanks

Amin

Strange, I have uploaded it and when I open in firefox it shows me but when I try to open the link with IE it doesnt open the image.

Does anyone know why please?

thanks

Amin

Stefan,

Please by all means go ahead , I will be very happy to see the results too. As I mentioned in my earlier posts I am a newbie in all this so please do not refrain yourself to step in in anyway that I could gain some extra knowledge. I am quite thirsty for it and this place has become a learning fountain for me in all aspects of photography, and the bonus is I find you all people extremely friendly and helpful without making me feel very ignorant or afraid of asking silly questions.

I will put the link here with the file as it is without touching anything so feel free if you want to use and then manipulate the file from it if its more convenient.

link


Its uploading the file as I post this comment, a few more seconds and should be up on the server

thanks

Amin

thanks Jacqui

That comment definitely brightened my morning. I think I could have done better though, but it was at the spur of a moment, while playing with my little one in the backgarden with the K20D hung around my neck and suddenly saw the flight, and decided to go for it. I got the feeling that I could have zoomed it far better had I managed just a fraction of a second more, but I panicked and didn't want to lose the moment.

I guess that's where the experienced man shines huh?

Amin

here is feeble attempt to take a shot of a flying one.




EDIT: image was too big, rescaled it.

DA 55-300mm on K20D

Fl 97.5mm, F4.5, 1/1000sec, ISO 200

Jacqui

Let me try to upload it after resizing it.

And regarding the lens, just like you I went through enormous amount of reading and listened to the advice of all these helpful and extremely patient and more experienced people around here and came to the conclusion that the 55-300mm was the one to go for and the cashback was a huge bonus.

And even with my limited knowledge in the field I can assure you that I am extremely satisfied with it. I have been playing around with it for a few days now and taken a lot of shots (definitely not of the quality to upload here but purely and simply because of lack of my skills as a photographer and not due to underperformance of the lens), and I am very happy with it.

For me it was worth the extra I paid compared to the Tamron one. I didn't want to end up in a situation that I would then feel that I should have spent a bit more and get a higher quality lens.

Let me see what I can do with regard to uploading this shot taken with my limited skills,

Amin

Pete
Did you take this shot handheld or on a tripod?

I managed a shot handheld and flying but its not as crisp as yours. Taken with the 55-300mm. Was quite keen on uploading it but doesn't seem up to the standard to show it off

Also when you upload it to the server do you upload it as it is? Its almost 10MB. Is there any tricks to it? I have no problems with server space as I have my own personal space so no restrictions there, just thinking how slow it will be to open it. But of course I can just link it rather than put the image, but still shows humungus in the browser. Whats the trick, if any.

Thanks

Amin

Matt

true, for the past couple of hours I have been playing with picasa 3 and its unbelievably user friendly and nice to work with, even from the organisation point of view. Still shufling with it when I saw your comment pop in.

Also seems like the date structure of image folders is good one then, mine after all its more or less the same way, but the way you have done is you have opened the root folder for the year and then subfolders within them. I have named straight all the folders by dates so they are all scattered into the MY PICTURES folder. I think I will be able to streamline it better if I divide them by year also and then move the subfolders into the respective years.

Beauty of picasa is it finds and subdivides the folders by year even if they havent been opened and saved by year, hence the neat and simple aspect and easy to locate what we want. Vista does something like this but seems picasa does it with more flair and refinement. I like it, and I am sticking with it

Thanks again

Amin

Hi Liam, sorry I managed to find out, it was in the previous tab which asked me to rename the files.

Thanks

Amin