Loved the Wild Burro, but wish I could see his feet _ ;^)
These guys were difficult to photograph as they never stopped moving. I
noticed the lack of feet only after uploading to the notebook that
evening. :-(
I put on the 40~150 when I first spotted them but they kept coming
closer and closer until they wouldn't fit in the frame.
> Thought this before, those landscapes somehow resemble what you could
> see in my country ( no Alkali Lakebed, cetainly )
Perhaps more like Chubut or Santa Cruz where I saw many chara or rheas.
They were very well camouflaged and difficult to spot and photograph. My
feeble attempts produced a few blurry images.
> Actually, I do believe that there's a bug in the presentation since I
> just realized that certain thumbnails do actually totally disappear from
> both sides of the screen at times.
>
Chuck, Not a bug. That's a feature! I've allowed a maximum of 10 thumbs
per side or the page becomes too tall for the short squatty monitors.
Perhaps even 10 is too many? Ditto for increasing thumb size. The idea
is that thumbs to the right are a preview of coming attractions, those
to the left are behind. The index page (button upper left) provides for
static back and forth navigation with mouse clicks . Or page through
images. Click on right side of image to move to next image, left side
goes back, center returns to index page.Or the slideshow (button upper
right). Would it be better if I provided a popup help menu? And a total
image tally? There isn't enough room to display a full image and the
thumbs on one page. Another simple skin lets you page or scroll
through the thumbs like this old album:
<http://www.interisland.net/watershed/Albums/E-OR%20LateOct05> Perhaps
that is more to your liking? I found it to be more cumbersome which is
why I switched to a modified Chameleon skin.
> Some nice shots. First one makes me think you need a shift lens,
> or was that on purpose? Same thing with the old windmill.
Yes, a shift would be nice but tripod and shift lens farting around
isn't compatible with other trip members :-)
I found some of the distortion a bit distracting which is why I pulled
the bottom together on the trapezoid shot. I'm not sure why we should
be confined to rectangles anyway. The 16 and 18 are pretty good as long
as you can keep them level but some of these shots were above the
horizon line.
I applied a bit of LCE and sharpening in WP Pro but backed it off
because I felt the image became too harsh. HDR to me seems like a crutch
for poor dynamic range but perhaps I should practice with it more. At
least until the MP wars are over and some attention is paid to something
that's actually useful.
Thanks for the comments and suggestions.
Mike
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