Photos from the S6000fd

[SoundDust]

[mzms]

Nesting Magpie Robin

sharpening set to soft (I find it's normal just fine though).
Had to adjust the EV cause the Fuji burned out a lot of the highlights in the tree bark and the bird's feathers. Also I find the colors kinda dull. Last pic with digital zoom.

The little bird's nesting inside the bottom hole, there's a pair of them, when one's inside the hole, the other usually sits at the top of this dead tree.

[bdod1880]

As you can probably tell from the blades of grass, this little guy was only an inch from wingtip to wingtip. He posed well for this macro though.

Bud

[Mikael_N]

one of the first test of my fuji6500fd

[Spinning]

[P_Schneider]

Love the turtle! Unique shot. Clone out string maybe?

[Mikael_N]

a bit too dark.. how do you think? -.-'

[P_Schneider]

Well the darkness isn't too bad but the reflection really kills the shot.

[levicki]

Last night was stormy here in Belgrade. There was no rain and no thunder but you could catch some nice lightning bolts:



ISO 100
F 3.7
8 sec
Manual focus

The problem with such shot is that after 8 seconds hot pixels become visible and there are quite a lot of them. I had to do a lot of post-processing which probably killed some fine detail.

What I did was NeatImage->Crop(1600x1200)->Dust&Scratches(1px)->UnsharpMask(0.5px,500%)->AutoLevels.

Note that I still don't have a tripod and I had to improvise. I used one of my column speakers and a cardboard box on top of it. Considering all the obstacles I am impressed how well it turned out.

[wutske]

Last night was stormy here in Belgrade. There was no rain and no thunder but you could catch some nice lightning bolts:



ISO 100
F 3.7
8 sec
Manual focus

The problem with such shot is that after 8 seconds hot pixels become visible and there are quite a lot of them. I had to do a lot of post-processing which probably killed some fine detail.

What I did was NeatImage->Crop(1600x1200)->Dust&Scratches(1px)->UnsharpMask(0.5px,500%)->AutoLevels.

Note that I still don't have a tripod and I had to improvise. I used one of my column speakers and a cardboard box on top of it. Considering all the obstacles I am impressed how well it turned out.

One way to eliminate hot pixels is take a picture with the lens cap on your lens (use a shorter exposure for this). This gives you a black image with only hot pixels. In photoshop you can add this as a layer and set it to substract (or another mode, can't remember which one).