David's Shutter Bug Club

[David In Indy]

?? I knew they got worse when I blow them UP...

and what is RAW??

Yes, when you blow up digital images too much, you get pixel deterioration. When this happens the picture looks "digitized" because of all the interpolation.

When you shrink digital images, you can also have a loss of resolution - things like "ghosting" and fringing. Take a look at the mountain scene up at the top of the homepage. If you look close, you can see some ghosting up at the very top of the highest mountain tops, like little "waves" or a haze.  This is what is happening to my pictures too, but it seems to get even worse when I upload them to the Internet.

I will try taking pictures I plan on uploading using a lower resolution, maybe 2mp. I have to shrink the images down anyway because they would take way too long to upload, and I must resize them to fit on the page.

[David In Indy]

?? I knew they got worse when I blow them UP...

and what is RAW??

Oops! Sorry Jess. I forgot to tell you what RAW is!

RAW is an uncompressed file certain cameras will use to preserve image quality. A RAW file is either uncompressed or only slightly compressed. You can then import the RAW file into imaging software for editing. RAW files are pure. The camera saves the image EXACTLY as it "sees" it. There is very little or no image corruption since it is not compressed. The problem is, RAW files are HUGE! They take up many many megabytes and unless you have a large memory card, you really can't store more than a dozen RAW images at one time. I have a 2 GB memory card, and I really can't squeeze more than 50 RAW images on there. So, I'm constantly importing the images to my computer in order to save space on the SD card.

Anyway, most people don't use RAW, and only certain cameras have RAW file capabilities. TIFF is another file format similar to RAW, but it tends to compress the image file a little bit more than RAW.

[David In Indy]

A little splash of color in an otherwise very sad day without our Heath. 

Colored Golf Balls

Conditions: Indirect lighting
Camera Equipment: Canon PowerShot G9
Camera Mode: Manual
Aperture: f/5.0
Shutter Speed: 1/60
White Balance: Custom
Light Meter: Evaluative
Exposure Compensation Value: 0
ISO: 80
Flash: Off

[injest]

very cool!

[David In Indy]

I took these through the window. It's too damn cold out there!

That squirrel is theiving from the bird feeder! Damn devil!


Conditions: Bright Sun
Camera Equipment: Canon PowerShot G9
Camera Mode: Manual
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/500
White Balance: Custom
Light Meter: Spot
Exposure Compensation Value: - 1 1/3
ISO: 100
Flash: Off






This little squirrel was much smarter because there is corn right there on the floor!

Conditions: Bright
Camera Equipment: Canon PowerShot G9
Camera Mode: Manual
Aperture: f/3.2
Shutter Speed: 1/500
White Balance: Custom
Light Meter: Evaluative
Exposure Compensation Value: - 2/3
ISO: 200
Flash: Off

[David In Indy]

I was bored and goofing around with this next picture. I set my toy VW van in front of a geode I found when I was around 12 years old. Then I set my camera to macro and took this picture. Nothing serious, but I thought I would post it! 

Conditions: Indoor lighting
Camera Equipment: Canon PowerShot G9
Camera Mode: Manual
Aperture: f/7.1
Shutter Speed: 1/8
White Balance: Auto
Light Meter: Evaluative
Exposure Compensation Value: 0
ISO: 100
Flash: Off
Other: Optical Image Stabilization, Optical Zoom x2

[injest]

that made me laugh...thank you, David....you so silly!!

[injest]

ok I was gonna be silly!!

this is....well you know who he is....his battery has been dead like forever...but every now and again he BLINKS!! freaks me out dude! tonight he has his eyes open...



this was on auto..and as you can see the lens cover didnt open all the way..but I think it looks kinda cool...a happy accident

but you know I can't do ANYTHING around here without someone getting up in my business...

here is Milli with her glamour poses...again..auto..but with the macro!

first one profile:



then her coup de grace!!



look at the shine!! the sparkle!! who takes good care of her babies?? huh??

(actually she is kinda ugly in that pic....she is freaking me out, man....but she is shiny...)

[David In Indy]

 

I needed a reason to laugh tonight Jess!! Thank you!!!

I'm laughing because I remember you telling me about that Yoda doll a couple of years ago. I'd forgotten all about him! You told me about the way he will suddenly open his eyes and other things.

Milli is beautiful! I LOVE black cats! She really does have beautiful fur Jess. I totally agree with you!

Thanks for the pictures sweetie!! They cheered me up! 

[Kerry]

Like you, David, I also love sunsets and get to see some real bobby-dazzlers from my place in Sydney.

I took this pic this evening, Friday 25 January. Usually, such a beautiful sight would normally fill me with joy. At this sad time, however, I couldn't help but think of Heath, when I saw those beautiful sunbeams shining down from Heaven tonight.