24 November 2012

face to face

In this foggy morning in half of November can't expect to take good photo from far distance. This roe deer I've met alone on the green corn. This one perceived me at once but didn't run away. I knew that photos taken in such light would be enough poor but it would be.

21 November 2012

if winter this year will be late

I don't intend you to scare but winter in 2010 came suddenly. Here are photos from my archive.


In 26 November 2010 there was as at above photos


In 30 November 2010 there was so white around.

13 November 2012

Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

Today I've had good luck. A few day ago I perceived group of waxwings but I haven't camera with me. Later saw them but from long distance in the cloudy weather and only today although was late afternoon the birds perched on apple-trees and then in the small puddle.

11 November 2012

Wanting to sharpen photos

Wanting to sharpen photos before submitting them to the Internet is evident. The photos taken simple camera have auto sharpening and we see always sharpened them but digital SLR camera give view natural which appear us on the screen not delightfully. If we want to resize photo to more small size then ought to more sharpen it.There are many techniques of sharpening but result not always is satisfactory. I've found method of sharpening in the Internet that please me. I use to it Photoshop according following steps.
Step 1: convert to Lab color mode
Step 2: select lightness channel
Step 3: filter Unsharp Mask:amount about 130%,Radius 1px, Treshold 0;
Step 4:convert to RGB color mode
If result is satisfactory then process of sharpening is over.

First photo without sharpening, second after process of sharpening and third photo after next sharpening process with visible noise at left top corner.

07 November 2012

deffects of photos - how to remove artifacts

Artifacts are the little bits of digital noise that you can spot in magnified digital images in areas of shadow or large areas of even colours (a big blue sky for example). Below there are two photos. First photo have visible in magnification artefacts and second photo is after get rid artefacts. If we reduce them with the reduce noise filter in the Photoshop not only remove the noise, but also reduce details. There are many programs for reduce noise better or worse but all ones have this defect. How there can avoid of it I found on site of Dave'a - American photographer . There is link to this site Photos4u2c . I must admit that isn't too easy used his method but effect was admirable. Now I use his way very often even when artefacts aren't too visible.
You can see result when you peer at left side especially at left bottom corner. It will be more visible when you will copy photos and peer in your browser in magnification.

05 November 2012

the photography defect - optical vignetting

Above photo of Сергей Евдокимов from Russia. We see all the corners of this photo are greyed a little. It's example of optical vignetting. This defect can be due to the lens limitations or by camera settings. The camera settings refer to the lens aperture and can often be cured by a reduction in aperture of 2–3 stops.

03 November 2012

the short reportage about the roe deers

I met this trio roe deers incidentally about the field road driving the car. These photos are taken from the car window. It's enough hard against the sun to have good result. The animals look too dark, although result isn't too bad.

01 November 2012

small defects of the photos

Enough often there is happen that on the photo, which include water, surface don't have horizontal position and me don't perceive it. Using Photoshop or other program for photo processing we can correct it. It's proper remember about it for accuracy. Above photo as example such situation.