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Re: Photographer(s) Feedback on the new site

It seems from my recent experience that images are being re-sized & compressed upon upload. I added 5 each set at 1024px on the longest side yet they were all interpolated to 1280px on longest side. It also seems the opportunity to remove the awful compression applied at upload has been missed i...

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RE: Eos 1DX New Firmware/more Blue Sky Banding

Mark - I have a 1DX & haven't seen this issue. However, I have heard of guys having similar issues when highlight tone priority is selected. This has occurred on both the 1DX and 5D Mk3. Cheers, Garry

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RE: Image Compression

Thanks for the reply Mick. It would be good to receive an update as to how the developers get on with reducing the compression, if not removing it completely, in due course.

Garry

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Image Compression

I am aware that this subject has been raised previously in both this and the Site Related forums, albeit never to a conclusion it seems. Two of my recent uploads were rejected for Quality & Soft, the 'original' file sizes when the images left my pc were 440kb and 512kb respectively. The 'same' i...

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Best Times To Pay Brize Norton Visits?

These links may help.

http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/spotting/brize_norton.html

http://www.pb-photos.com/maps.html

Garry

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RE: Lots Of Airbus Photos On Facebook Fan Page

FB Responded as follows

"Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention. We have removed or disabled access to the third-party or user-generated content you have reported to us for violating our Statement of Rights & Responsibilities."

Thanks to Justin for highlighting the issue.

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garry

RE: Lots Of Airbus Photos On Facebook Fan Page

One of mine has been used. I've also emailed FB.

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garry

RE: MAN Runway Use?

Thanks Karl, very interesting.

Does the 380 use 05 R for departure? If it uses 05 R out of hours for landing I'm now wondering what it does for departure?

I guess this must all be down to taxi ways and the route to its stand.

Cheers
Garry

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RE: MAN Runway Use?

Looking at tomorrows forecast they will be using 05 Right and Left. The early arrivals will come in on 05Right which is great for photography - then at sometime during the morning (perhaps 10am?) they will switch to 05 Left. The 380 will therefore land on 05 Left and will depart on 05 Left. Hope thi...

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garry

Report The Bugs Here (Part 1)

Thank you for the update Thierry.

Best wishes
Garry

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Report The Bugs Here (Part 1)

Just tried to leave a comment after rating a picture. I could complete the narrative but when I hit Post nothing happens - I have experienced this for a few weeks now so seems a problem. Using Chrome to access.

Garry

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RE: Your Own Personal Photo Of The Year 2010

This one is my personal favourite from 2010. An F15 low level in Wales with the iconic, snow capped, Snowdon peak in the background. <br/><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><a href="/photo/USA---Air/Boeing-F-15E-Strike/1665564/L/" target="_blank">View Large</a> <a...

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RE: "The Recent Photo That Made You Say Wow" Part 12

An amazing pass brilliantly captured, wish I had been there. <br/><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><a href="/photo/UK---Air/Panavia-Tornado-GR4/1822761/L/" target="_blank">View Large</a> <a href="/photo/UK---Air/Panavia-Tornado-GR4/1822761/M/" target="_blank">Vi...

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RE: Canon 1Div

This should help. Bottom line is it's awesome, worth every penny and by far the best SLR I have owned in 25 years.

http://www.aircanon.co.uk/Canon%201DMK4%20AutoFocus%20Review.html

Cheers
Garry

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RE: Anyone Using A Canon 1D MkIII?

Would echo what's been said the 1 series is streets ahead of the other dslr's canon produces. I bought a MK4 earlier in the year and then added a 7D as a back up body only to sell it 2 months later as it is poor in comparison to both the MK4 and MK3. Noise on the MK3 is ok as it's 10mp on a 1.3 crop...

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garry

RE: Marchynlleth Loop In Wales

Have a look at lowfly.net there is a comprehensive review of the locations along with what you should expect and what is expected of you in respecting the area. There are no best times to see the aircraft, you turn up and see what comes through. Some days you see nothing others you see loads. I'd en...

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RE: Image Resizing

Just out of interest can someone point out where the noise is please.

Thanks
Garry

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RE: Is The Devil In The Detail - Monitor Calibration

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RE: Is The Devil In The Detail - Monitor Calibration

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RE: Is The Devil In The Detail - Monitor Calibration

Hi LeadingEdge, I can understand your thinking. You could have a histogram with no clipping at all in the whites but shown on an overly bright screen could make them seem clipped, or indeed the image being generaly too bright - if the screeners have got a default histogram of the images they screen ...

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garry

Is The Devil In The Detail - Monitor Calibration

I realise that elements of this topic have been indirectly discussed but my objective in posting it was to dig a little deeper into how the screening team are calibrating their monitors. No doubt all photographers who have pictures accepted here have their monitors calibrated and while it is easy to...

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garry

RE: The One Photo That Made You Go Wow - V

Hi Daniel - glad you liked my picture.

The lens was a Canon 600f4 with a 2x attached - tripod mounted with Wimberley Gimbal Head .

Cheers
Garry

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RE: Xmas Is Comign Which Dell Monitor.

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RE: Canon 1D Mk III - AF Settings

Hi Kevin - here are those that I think will be relevant for Aviation and what I have them set at. The key are those found within CF group 3 - I'd encourage you to know these inside out as they can seriously affect the performance of the camera. CF111 Group Auto Focus/Drive No2 -Tracking Sensitivity ...

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RE: Help With More Rejections

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RE: Help With More Rejections

Hi Colin - that web site of yours is coming on, some great images on there, you must be delighted. <img src="/discussions/graphics/smilies/thumbsup.gif" alt="thumbsup" border=0> It's incredibly frustrating to get rejections such as these, I know from my own experience over exposure is a ...

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RE: Colour Rejection Help Please.

Sorry Spencer - here's the result of my attempt as outlined above <table BORDER=0 width=102 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 STYLE="border: 1px black solid;"><tr><td><a href="/uf/view.file?id=536909056&filename=phpMTm2Wh.jpg" target=_blank><img src="/uf/536909056/thumbs/phpMTm2Wh.jpg" ALT="Big version: W...

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RE: Help With A Reg.

Well spotted Spencer! Choice of 2 it seems.

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RE: Help With A Reg.

Cal - just checked my World Airline Registrations - American have an MD83 N9414W, fleet number/name is 9414. It's the only ref to 414 I could find.

HTH
Garry

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RE: Colour Rejection Help Please.

Hi Spencer - it's not too difficult to remove. The key is getting the Info palette open in Photoshop (assuming you have it) Here's how I removed it: Make a threshold layer select white point and black point - you will see when doing this there is a colour cast as the RGB from the Info palette are no...

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garry

RE: Question For RAW Shooters

Hi Bruce - these are very good questions. It's hard to get your head around some of these terms but I'll try to explain. Firstly, it's important to understand that Levels is the distribution of tones in your image from black to white and generally speaking the graph of these tones should fall off at...

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RE: Selective Sharpening

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RE: Selective Sharpening

Joakim - as sharpening is a local contrast adjustment colour saturation may be affected resulting in colour fringing where the sharpening is applied. The Luminosity blend mode only lets changes to the tonality of the Sharpening layer show through in the image. In other words, any changes to the tone...

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RE: Selective Sharpening

Just to add to Jid's comments - as sharpening is effectively a contrast enhancement along edges ensure that the layer blend option is changed to luminosity. This effectively is the same as sharpening the Lightness channel in lab mode but without the need to convert from RGB to LAB and back again. Ga...

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RE: The Day You Were Born...

Some excellent images - this one was taken on my birthday, found within a beautiful collection from John James <br><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><a href="/open.file/0183444/L/" target="_blank">View Large</a> <a href="/open.file/0183444/M/" target="_blank">Vie...

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RE: Color Rejection Help Please

Hi Mehdi - I can totally understand how you feel as Curves does seem an odd name to give something that when you see it is in a straight line! However, ...................... What you are able to do, and what I suggest you do first of all, is get familiar with it. If you open curves you will see the...

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garry

RE: Color Rejection Help Please

Totally agree with Jid, avoid auto, unless using as a guide - another way would be to find a mid tone and look at the individual red, green and blue numbers, selecting the colour picker will get you this - the cast will be evident from these numbers. Assuming you have Photoshop I would personally us...

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RE: Monitor Help

Hi Colin - how the devil are you? Just to add my comments to try to help although Toni has given sound advice. Firstly, your lens. I'd be tempted to download a lens test chart. Print it off and set it up in good light outdoors with your camera and lens on a tripod and take a series of shots at vario...

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garry

RE: Great Shots On Cloudy And Gloomy Days?

Only additional points I would raise to those already added is perhaps go for the detail shots/close ups. I took the image below on a dull overcast day - the metering was tricky but never a better way to learn. <br><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><a href="/open...

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garry

RE: Experiences Purchasing Kit From Dell

I've got a Dell desktop and laptop. Ordering was easy, delivery quick with no problems at all. Would not hesitate using them again.

Garry

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RE: Air To Air Distance Rejection- Appeal?

Congratulations on getting it accepted OPSO. I personally prefer the original in terms of the crop but if you have to crop is so tightly to fit in here so be it.

Great image - keep them coming please.

BW
Garry

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RE: Air To Air Distance Rejection- Appeal?

Hi Opso - that's a great shot. If it doesn't fit the Anet rules then it's unfortunate as I for one would love to see more of your shots like this - and Jeff's too. You both have/had access to a type of photography many of us will never enjoy, such a pity we don't enjoy those you choose to try to sha...

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garry

RE: Your Gear?

All Canon:

Bodies - 1DMK111, 5D, 30D, 300D & EOS3.
Lenses - 500 f4, 300 f2.8, 70-200 f2.8, 24-105 f4, 100 Macro, 50 f1.8 11, 16-35 f2.8.
Flash - 580 EX11 and 430 EX.
1.4 & 2 x extender

Loads of CF cards and a tardis of a rucksack to carry it all!

Garry

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RE: Contrast, Now Dark. B&W Image Help

Hi Colin - hope you are well. The shot looks alot better than the version you posted before. Getting a b&w conversion correct seems to be a difficult skill and as Jid mentions there are numerous ways. How did you make the coversion? I guess Jid's point relates the various %'s of red, green and blue ...

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garry

RE: Overexposed - Please Help

Hi Klaus - I've had a look at your photo and there are blown highlights which are evident across the windows and engine. If you open photoshop select levels and the click on the white marker while holding down the Alt key (assuming you have windows) the blown areas will show up (there aren't many) -...

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garry

RE: What Do You Use To Process Your RAW Images With?

Lightroom 1.1 - its the same raw engine that's in CS3.

They all seem very good - guess it depends how they would fit into your workflow.

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garry

RE: Photog Newbie: Which Camera To Start With?

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RE: Lens Selection Advice: Canon L Series

Ryan - this is a tough one as both the 100-400 and 70-200 are good lenses. Put the 1.4x on the 70-200 and you get 98-280 f4 (you lose 1 stop the the convertor) before any crop factor. Only you will know if that is enough reach. Have a look at this review on the 100-400 <a href="http://www.photozone....

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garry

RE: What Screeners Will Not Tolerate

Mick - I am staggered that you / your fellow screeners have to put up with such comment.

Regardless of how frustrating anyone may feel as to what happens on this site to react in such a manner has no excuse - you guys keep up the good work and invaluable help.

Garry

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RE: Touching Up Some Shots

Hi Tom - your concern about iso200 I guess is related to noise. I've downloaded all 3 and cant see any problem in this respect. Others are far more capable than I am on giving you feedback but for what its worth.......... <acronym title="Harbor Airlines (USA)">HB</acronym>-IUT - quality? It's a very...

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