Kodiak
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… I do wish the dabbling Gadwall was centered in the image…
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Well seen pxls2prnt!
As the picture came out of my RAW converter, it showed
the bright orange right leg of the duck. With it, the shot
was well centred but you're right, without it, it is no longer!
Thanks for taking the time! ;)
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Yes, would be awesome, several people here really lack this for productivity / screen space waste
Tout à fait!
Contextual menus would be a blessing!
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I was quiet, at my computer working on the most recent
photographs taken at the marsh when my daughter and
her two younger brothers popped in my office to tell me
about something but, seeing my screen, they had com-
ments as to what they see:
"Wow, she said, this looks like some kind of floating flower!"
"No, it looks like a water cathedral in a science fiction movie!"
said the younger brother.
The older brother looked at me just raising his shoulders.
What do you see?
AFAIAC, this is a very graphic image of a dabbling Gadwall
but I think I have fantasy minded kids that I am proud of.
This being my first attempt to image manipulation with AP.
C&C welcomed.
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Hi Franklin,
I often repeat to my students that it is not all about gear but
a lot to do with story telling, balance, and communication.
I prefer this rendition of that young woman as it is not yelling
technical prowesses and over cooked post processing but
well being, charm, open attitude.
The hands do appear kind of cramped but for the rest, darn
good work.
Do it again… please!
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Very cool, pleasing and credible!
I knew you were up to something good!
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Cool take of the bird, really… but may I point out that:
— the sky has a warmer WB than the bird?
— the cirrus formation would contribute better to
the composition if flipped horizontally?
— if the bird is that sharp on the take, the clouds
should not be?
I think you're up to something good Aeros4!
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Hi Jørn,
AP, at this point, is mainly a pixel editor with the RAW development
Persona for a file you wish to process. That does not make it a fully
featured converter the way you and I understand it. Not yet… maybe
they will do it in the near future. I would dig that a lot!
One can work on a RAW file to ultimately save it as tiff, jpg or else…
but no chance to rework the PP as in a converter would allow through
the use of sidecar files.
My RAW converter (Danish made btw!) has some cloning/healing tools
but it is not a pixel editor. For this, AP is a more appropriate solution.
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— "Goodbye photoshop welcome affinity photo"
My words exactly… some time ago. Great results indeed! :)
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… what if, when focus merging, it's better to have the out of focus areas not so much out of focus?
Not sure Greg…
The purpose (for me) to go for the focus stacking tech-
nique is exactly to get everything in focus which implies
sharpness and DoF. The sharpness is provided by the
sweet spot of the lens and the DoF by the stacking.
This example (exercise for my son) of such approach
using a 105 macro lens at ƒ8 and stacking 17 slices:
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(I just wish there were auto button in AP too...)
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Generally it is not possible to save edits to RAW files.
I would suggest that there is no way (…and that would not
be clever either!) to alter in any way a RAW file.
That makes "Develop" behave like a RAW converter as it will
read the raw data and convert it to a editable visual preview
of it that may me saved in a file format of your voice.
However,
Develop creates an unsaved file…
… right! Since Develop's goal is not to create a session with the
raw data (nor is it to save the PP performed on it via sidecar files
like a dedicated RAW converter would do) but to take the "deve-
loped" file to an editable format from within AF for further work
that may be saved in full details.
Consequently, should a new version on the RAW file need to be
initiated, one will have to re-"Develop" anew as no references of
the prior develop were saved.
This is my understanding and experience with AP.
Please note that I would be very grateful to be proven wrong
in this as it is one the two major points that keep me away
from that Persona and make me use AP as pixel editor exclu-
sively (but happily so as it performs splendidly in this regard).
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Firstly, there is nothing stupid about these images.
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Nothing stupid about these at all!
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Any exploratory work, even in a wrong direction,
just can't be qualified as stupid… by definition.
Enjoy!
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It is actually not the same reason for f 20 and f 0.95…
Right…
The purpose of my reply was to alert on possible
consequences when shooting at either end of the
ƒ ring without getting too much into the heavy stuff.
Your suggestion to use a Scheimpflug principle geo-
metric rule approach is good too!
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… I will post it
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…yeah, promises! :P
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i want to experiment with stopping my lens down some more. despite being focus merged, they're both a little soft but the second one is worse at full open. the first was at f7.1
For most lenses, the sweet spot is around ƒ6.3 ~ ƒ10. So at
ƒ7.1, you were not far.
Closer to the smallest ƒ stop (+/- ƒ22), you may gain in
DoF but one loses in sharpness due to diffraction limita-
tions in any lens.
Greater aperture (ƒ 2.8 ~ƒ1.2), the bokeh is great but the
same limitations are present.
So, shooting to stack @ +/- ƒ8 is the better idea!
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Quite tasteful work, Ronnie, in both the
choices of colours and rendition, Cool!
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The first one for me Greg… delicious! ;)
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… It would be nice to get such feature for precise work.
I see that with Crop Tool is the same situation
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Personally, I think these tools are just right as no one
can predict or evaluate the amount of scale, rotation
or keystoning a picture may require.
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I can see the Kingfisher - now that you pointed it out
…let's keep it a secret! ;)
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Your most brilliant rendition here Keith is, IMO,
the Cormorant. In every aspect, brilliant.
The others are to my understanding and pleasure
somewhat too saturated, a tad under and even
some not so ideal WB.
…but the cormorant… a mile ahead!
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I took you advice on trying to even the skin tones and i think it made a really big difference.
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What… you were listening? ;)
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I think you got the right line there Mike… :P :D :P
Tx, I appreciate that!