Nikon DSLR "Picture Of The Day"

[Rasidel Slika]

whoa eddie! nice, esp the first shot.

[Rasidel Slika]

jennifer, both your snow images are beautiful however i think they;ve been considerabley oversharpened...or something. the finer branches look very strange to me.

+1

sharpening scenes like that is TOUGH!

[eddie_dane]

thanks, I'm gonna go ahead and take credit for the lighting conditions. Sorry God, I'll make it up to you later.

[Prospero]

I while ago I got my hands on an old sigma 500 mm mirror lens. The weather has been bad for a month or so, but today the weather cleared up and I could test the lens for a bit.

I've heard many bad stories about mirror lenses, but I gotta say, the quality I get out of this one really isn't all that bad. Being an f/8 lens, it's quite tough to get it focussed, but when you get the lens focussed right, it's quite sharp. With some post processing, the contrast and colour are fine too.
The bokeh is rather bad, with highlights being rendered like rings, but it would be easy to remove that with some gaussian blur.

Here are two pictures I took today:

[Dollface]

NICE! Beautiful amber colors in the water Prospero! LOVE it!

[Dollface]

Ok here is another Winter Wonderland picture. All that's been PP in the photo is the WB and it's been resized. Rooz how does this one look?

[rawpaw18]

Does look better to me^

In my back yard were a few Red-Wings, I grabbed my camera and they
started to take off. Not having time to adjust settings this is what I got.
1/25 at 200mm

[jcon]

Rooz how does this one look?

Although I am not Rooz, it still looks like its been sharpened... do you have in cam sharpening turned on?

[Rasidel Slika]

Ok here is another Winter Wonderland picture. All that's been PP in the photo is the WB and it's been resized. Rooz how does this one look?

I am not Rooz either, but a good question would be, how did you sharpen it? With what program? Most of them have options when resizing, maybe experiment a little there.

Although, this does look better than the first iteration.

[Rooz]

In my back yard were a few Red-Wings, I grabbed my camera and they
started to take off. Not having time to adjust settings this is what I got.
1/25 at 200mm

magnificent.

I am not Rooz either, but a good question would be, how did you sharpen it? With what program? Most of them have options when resizing, maybe experiment a little there.

Although, this does look better than the first iteration.

x2. looks far better but still some jaggies there. maybe its the program used to resize ?