Geese "Blast Off" Platte River, Colorado

[MarkoPolo]

I'm still working at posting photos! This was taken yesterday near Greeley, Colorado. Canon 38-135IS on 10D. Hope you like it! Mark

[MarkoPolo]

Well, guess I have "size" issues! Trying again Mark

[MarkoPolo]

3rd times the charm? Mark

[skimmilk68]

i dunno if its something u did when uploading or the picture itself but its not sharp

[MarkoPolo]

Thanks for the reply skimmilk68. The picture was taken literally on the "fly." I was turned 180 degrees the other way taking a landscape shot on the tripod with mirror lock-up enabled. I heard the geese and picked up camera, tripod and all, and shot. Rather clumsily, I might add as the mirror lock-up meant I had to shoot blind. It was 135mm, f5.6 at 1/100th of a second. I was trying to pan the geese, and I felt a few of them were sharp. Mark

[skimmilk68]

Well, guess I have "size" issues! hehehe thats funny... :lol:

[quickben]

A "swarm" of Oyster-Catchers.

Gary.

[MarkoPolo]

Wow! Beautiful shot! Mark

[Fer!]

Yes, This last one is very nice.

[KevC]

Methinks you're overcompressing. What program are you using to resize/recompress the pics? Try GIMP! There's tons of artifacting that I'm sure the camera didn't produce. :) Other than that, nice shot!

[MarkoPolo]

What program are you using to resize/recompress the pics?

KevC--I used Photoshop CS. I resize image to 800 at the widest, then set pixels to 75/inch. What I didn't realize, is you need to set the pixel/inch firist or do it in an additional step. Kind of new at this posting stuff, first too small, then too big! I also thought that the quality setting of the jpeg was important for final size, but I have't quite figured that out either. I'll keep at it until I finally figure it out. Mark