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I tried to load this with blue cross but did not work we need bit more help with this please.
This picture needs to show detail of how good stacking and blending is with no loss of sharpness becuse you can use lens at prime f stop settings and avoid loss of detail by defraction and likes of f32!
I am doing my best to get more serious topic going there is too much of the same every day in bird topic AND OTHERS we need to advace things with a bit more thought and generate help and learnig like we did in the old days with this forum. I hope some of you will see what I mean get your own website if you want to post more and more images but save you best only for here.
WE WILL LOSE OUR WAY AND VALUED MEMBERS WILL STOP POSTING NEW AND GOOD INFO!
Thanks for posting details of your procedure, Graham. It's something I have been promising myself to explore but not yet got round to it. Maybe once all the current domestic issues are resolved I will knuckle down and try it.
On the subject of posting lots of images in threads...
I had always assumed that threads were about information sharing...on any subject. And images could be used to illustrate a point.
Members Galleries on the other hand are there to display our work....where people can browse through the images more conveniently than when the images are intermingled with spurious comments and the inevitable thread drift.
When you first started the Bird photography topic a number of us posted our efforts and there was constructive discussion that, I for one, enjoyed and learnt a lot. But it soon became clear to me that pursuit of excellence wasn't so much about equipment but more about fieldcraft, local access and being prepared to invest time...more time than I was prepared to invest... especially as I was lagging behind in the other criteria as well. 😆
Yes it's true that if people stop contributing, it does become pointless in terms of learning.
I remember in my IR days that members expressed interest in technique, lens, processing ...even though few intended to have a go themselves. Once the initial interest was satiated, I became painfully aware I was the main poster on the IR threads and when the only responses were suppressed yawned 'nice shot'... I stopped posting them.
The reality is that EVERY subject, once all new information has been shared, dries up. I except your focus stacking to do the same.
It's also true that the whole digital imaging has come of age. We all know how to do 'it' in our own particular way. And for most that's good enough.
I could bore people on the use of Affinity Photo on an iPad ....few would ever feel it useful.
To keep interest we need new topics. The trouble is they seem to be fewer in number these days.
I do feel threads are for new topics, (illustrated) information sharing; when they become pseudo galleries, they have run their course.
Just my 2 cents.
Last edited on Sat Jun 1st, 2019 08:47 by Eric
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