Hey everyone,

I am putting up 2 shots..they have been reduced in quality and size so please don't take that into consideration...I just want to know what you guys think of my ideas so far - as well, if I were to save a RAW file - at 6.8 MB files that the DIgRebXT outputs, how much would that be in TIFF usually

for noise i use noise ninja.  I have purchased the pro vesion (or whatever the most expensive version is).  It is good however, because you can place it in a photoshop action to do automatically (which saves me sitting there waiting for it).  I picked noise ninja by reading a review once of about 5 different types of noise reduction software compared.  Noise ninja came out on top so I picked it.  no complaints so far.

Your piano shot looks really good and i think it would be accepted easily.  The parrot one I am more sceptical about.  It looks like there is quite a shallow depth of field which perhaps doesn't add anything to the photo.  It would be nice to have the entire head in focus (in my opinion)

not sure what the answer is to your tiff question, but am curious why you are wondering?

yes I agree about storing your photos as tiff or psd.  I store them as tiff lzw compressed which is a lossless compression.  This means that although they are compressed no image data is losed.  When you save an image as jpg it is compressed and image data IS lost.  If you open and save a jpg a number of times, the data loss is exponential.  Another advantage is by saving as tiff's you can keep all your layers.  I save the tiff as an non-sharpened, non-unsharpmasked image.. then run a pack of tiffs through a photoshop action which sharpens them, and unsharp masks them and saves them as a jpg ready for upload.  so in the end i have a

raw - the original image i shot
tiff - the edited file which includes all the layers (with the bottom layer untouched)
jpg - ready for upload sharpened and unsharp masked.

Just one note on the parrot.  I agree that the DOF is way to shallow.  It isn't a focusing isssue but a depth of focus issue.  You probably already understand that but I wanted to make sure.  Just stop down on the aperature to 9 or 11 and that will help.  Or use a zoom and move farther back.

Mark

True, I hadn't thought of it that way

for noise i use noise ninja.

surely for noise reduction, noise ninja helps a lot. just install the plug in photoshop 

Quote from: leaf on April 26, 2006, 16:23

for noise i use noise ninja.

surely for noise reduction, noise ninja helps a lot. just install the plug in photoshop 

I think you've broken some sort of record for replying to a topic that's almost five years old.

wow come a long way since then making 20 bucks a month and submitting really bad photos

Which is good for you, but I haven't changed. I'm doing worse now than I did the first year in micro.   (my own fault of course)

Good thing you labeled the keys with "Piano" I never would  have guessed what it was. (sarcastic face here)  

Yes, Paulie this is going to be interesting... Date Registered:    December 07, 2010, 15:24

yes she's still alive, she's the best and should be alive for another 80 yrs

don't remember the aperture though