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On Jul 5, 9:45*pm, It's NEVER the Camera <i...@address.info> wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 19:21:14 -0700, Irwell <h...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >On 2 Jul 2010 17:20:58 GMT, ray wrote:
>
> >> Totally untouched photo of a thistle (canadian thistle, I think) I shot
> >> near Cauldron Linn on the Snake River a couple of days ago.
>
> >>http://www.rcarter.net/region/thistle.jpg
>
> >Nic picture, here is my version taken with a
> >Panasonic G1, Roumania 2009.
> >http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...41&message=357...
>
> Since everyone is into thistles....
>
> http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4139/...44410ff4_b.jpg
>
> Shot handheld with a with a Fuji Finepix 2600z, 2.1 megapixel, fully
> automatic, 3x zoom, P&S camera (about 10 years ago) on a very cloudy and
> overcast day. (Note total lack of shadows.) Using a close-up filter
> fashioned from a single-element plastic "achromat" salvaged from an old
> 126-Instamatic.
>
> With careful upsampling and applying a Fourier transform at each stage this
> can be successfully printed to 18"x13" from a 2.1 megapixel camera. This is
> the downsized (and intentionally jpg degraded) image from the 3300x2475
> upsampled version used for that very purpose.

You claim to have successfully upscaled from 2 Mpx to 8 Mpx and then
you publish something at 1/2 Mpx.
It doesn't work that way.

DanP

On 2 Jul 2010 17:20:58 GMT, ray <> wrote:

>Totally untouched photo of a thistle (canadian thistle, I think) I shot
>near Cauldron Linn on the Snake River a couple of days ago.
>
>http://www.rcarter.net/region/thistle.jpg


Nice shot. Now wait for it to go to seed and look for shots of birds
feeding on it.

ray wrote:
>
> Totally untouched photo of a thistle (canadian thistle, I think) I shot
> near Cauldron Linn on the Snake River a couple of days ago.
>
> http://www.rcarter.net/region/thistle.jpg


You're still using your Kodak P850, eh? That pic you posted, bears
a strong resemblance to many of my own flower images, captured by
the P850.

--
Cordially,
John Turco <>

Marie's Musings <http://fairiesandtails.blogspot.com>

Ted Banks wrote:
>
> On 2 Jul 2010 17:20:58 GMT, ray <> wrote:
>
> >Totally untouched photo of a thistle (canadian thistle, I think) I shot
> >near Cauldron Linn on the Snake River a couple of days ago.
> >
> >http://www.rcarter.net/region/thistle.jpg
>
> This isn't any sort of luck. This is about as basic as basic gets. Beginner
> students should be able to capture images like this their first week with
> their very first camera. Your example sorely needs cropping too. I'll leave
> it to you to figure out the composition required of this subject. Even
> remedial photographers would do this cropping and composition properly
> in-camera.


Wait a moment, now..."ray" isn't a DSLR owner. He employs a Kodak P850
digicam, which has 5 megapixels and a 12x optical zoom lens.

I own the same model, and it's my most-used camera (with 9,700+ shots).

The P850 is a superb blend of image quality, feature set and ergonomics.
Vastly underrated; tragically, it was discontinued by Kodak, within a
couple of years of its 2005 introduction.

--
Cordially,
John Turco <>

Marie's Musings <http://fairiesandtails.blogspot.com>