That's how Serbia looks... you could see something like this in Ukraine as well, but not now; there is snow everything. You must have warmer climate there.

Written by K✞ulu on 23.01.2009 at 09:02

That's how Serbia looks... you could see something like this in Ukraine as well, but not now; there is snow everything. You must have warmer climate there.

Yeah, global warming is bitch you know... It aint no myth, we had knee deep snow every year, but for the last 3-4 years its either little or no snow at all... We had some, and it stayed for like 5 days, and melted... That sucks.

That's how winter looks here.

And again it looks like it could be Ukraine, but in some rural area. Do you in fact live in the country? Or is it a suburb?

M? Suburb. Few kilometers to Riga, no country. If the photo would be much wider, you see many 5-storey buildings.

Written by Ragana on 26.01.2009 at 23:20

M? Suburb. Few kilometers to Riga, no country. If the photo would be much wider, you see many 5-storey buildings.

A great place to live in. This is kinda the place in my hometown where my family lives. It's probably much quieter there than in Riga itself, and less car exhausts...

Yep, that's why I like it. But on other hand it's not cool when your school is located in Riga and you have to wake up each mourning at 5:30 to get to the school on time. Well it's still ~20min to Riga, but...

Yeah, the big plus is that silence in here. You don't hear police/ambulance sirens all night long as it is in Riga.

Written by Ragana on 26.01.2009 at 23:20

M? Suburb. Few kilometers to Riga, no country. If the photo would be much wider, you see many 5-storey buildings.

I have to say that the picture looks pretty nice to me. And better without any buildings around

Good.
Well I discovered that I have a lot of photos from this summer & autumn, so I can show you some of these. As I still can't photograph like a real artist, I'm taking my photos only when I see something I like.


Riga. 30th of August, 2008.


Riga. 18th of November. The Independence Day's 90th anniversary.


Salaspils (my town). September or smth.


I'm sure you can't live without seeing my cat too.

Written by Ragana on 27.01.2009 at 22:16

Good.
Well I discovered that I have a lot of photos from this summer & autumn, so I can show you some of these. As I still can't photograph like a real artist, I'm taking my photos only when I see something I like.


Riga. 30th of August, 2008.

OMG I think I gonna start type correct in englishw he I see this pic, moust overtated Rīga pic

Nice cat whats his' her name?

No, this is.

(but it's mine too, of course)

His name is Penguin (yep, Penguin).

Written by Ragana on 27.01.2009 at 23:00

No, this is.

(but it's mine too, of course)

His name is Penguin (yep, Penguin).

No not this one because its lil better its your own made but its some part of it not all monument

All of them are my own made.
Well I realized that I can't catch all Brīvības monument in one picture - too much people around and it just didn't fit in. And the photo looked terribly after all.

Hej,
Long time I havn't posted any tit, but it's winter and tits are hungry !

Great tit.
<img class="forum_post" src="http://viny80100.homelinux.com/images/galeries/oiseaux/oiseaux525TN.jpg">

Blue tit.
<img class="forum_post" src="http://viny80100.homelinux.com/images/galeries/oiseaux/oiseaux476TN.jpg">

enjoy.

I bought a new camera a few days ago! If you're interested to see, here's a little demonstration of it.

The first three images show off the zoom. None of these images have been edited.
This is with no zoom at all. Look at the little circle thing next to the window in the distance.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y281/Baz_Anderson/Lincoln/01far.jpg

This is the same circle thing taking the picture from the same place using only optical zoom. You can still see clear detail on the bricks even this far away.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y281/Baz_Anderson/Lincoln/02fullop.jpg

This is using full digital zoom too. It doesn't look quite so amazing, but it is a decent quality considering how far away I am.. just go back to the first image and see how far away I am!
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y281/Baz_Anderson/Lincoln/03dig.jpg

The camera has a really awesome macro mode too, it can take fantastic pictures of things close by. Here is a 100% crop of a picture I took of a Primal Fear patch. Quite cool!
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y281/Baz_Anderson/Lincoln/04patfull.jpg

And here's another close one of my ring.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y281/Baz_Anderson/Lincoln/05ring.jpg

I know it cost a chunky amount, but I am super impressed with it. I can't wait to get out there and take some more pictures of various things.

This camera can take pictures into RAW formats instead of converting it into a JPG inside the camera. It's like a digital negative that I develop on the computer with some software - these RAW images are like 13MB but have really good quality compared to the JPG originals, but the drawback is when I take a RAW image it takes something like 5 seconds to process before I can take another picture, so maybe not so ideal for shows.

Still, I just love it so far.

Whoah!
In general RAW pictures are very interesting. Although I haven't got a camera which can take photos in RAW, I was making sort-of-RAW pictures (converting them to RAW) some time ago. Sure, the pictures weren't that qualitative and beautiful as real-taken pictures in RAW format.
But it looks like a good camera, especially if we're talking about it's optical zoom which is incredible! I wish my camera could do that. What camera do you have?

Hej,
Bridge with RAW is either Olympus so. or Pana FZ28.

Yep, it is a Panasonic DMC FZ28. Apparently the best kind of camera of its kind - I have been so so impressed with its performance though, that doesn't surprise me.

This is a picture of it with the hood on:
http://www.digitalcamerareview.com/assets/19254.jpg

Hej,
Depends, the canon SX10 IS is close to the pana., and the fuji F100fs is better for low light shots but has less zoom and is bigger/heavier.
About RAW, didn't really managed to use the RAWs from my A540 (CHDK RAW), but anyway a bit to much work on a RAW, only good to try and save a not-so-good pic atm for me. Depends also if you like or not the jpg's out of your cam.

Nice pics, I just bought the Canon G10, thought it was cool to have a compact camera that great specs and easy to carry on with instead of my old Canon 5D...

Yeh, I have just been experimenting with my RAW pictures.
They do seem to look better than the ones that were took as jpegs, but there is so much to do with RAW files - adding contrast or sharpness or whatever.

I have taken a picture as a jpeg, and also as RAW and developed the RAW with and without my editing - and compared all three pictures.
The jpeg one doesn't have so much detail in it, the RAW without any editing has more detail and the colours around the main focus of the picture have come out better too, but it all looks a little plain and washed out.
The RAW that I edited does look the best, as you would expect, as I have added a bit of contrast, etc. - and so it has the detail of the RAW and brighter colours from the editing too.

Although I am sure after a metal show with dark conditions it would get slightly annoying trying to find the right settings to develop the pictures with - but I suppose taking pictures in RAW does allow for the best quality pictures I can take with this.

Hej,
Well would be interesting to show those, without saying which is which, and let us choose. ^^

Alrighty then, here are the three pictures:

Written by Baz Anderson on 10.02.2009 at 02:14

Alrighty then, here are the three pictures:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y281/Baz_Anderson/Lincoln/1.jpg

You live in that house near what car are parket?
Seems prity nice place

Hej, you should post 100% crops instead, here I spot only very slight differences (I opened them as 1024x768 in another window, here on MS even smaller pics).

Let's bet the middle one is the jpg out of the cam, first one the RAW and last one your processing of the RAW, because I think panasonic noise reduction removed some details in the middle one (the gears for example), also from what you said you added contrast, looks like the 3rd one has more contrast.

Yep, you are right. First is RAW, second is jpeg, third is my develop from RAW.
I didn't know the jpeg setting had the noise reduction thing, but that does make sense as it has got rid of some detail.
The real test will be when I get pictures from a show.

It is just tempting to shoot as jpeg seeing as it does take a long time for my computer to develop the pictures too - and I do take a lot of pictures at shows! Haha!

Hej,
You must be able to shoot raw + jpg, then choosing at home which needs to be saved by processing RAWs and which look good enough as jpg ?
And for noise reduction, it applies already at lower ISO on compacts/bridges, but at 400ISO you will notice it much more, here as your pics are at lot smaller than original 10Mpixels, they don't look too bad even without noise reduction. Also why I asked for 100% crops, here we will see real differences. Panasonic is famous for his heavier noise reduction than canon, for example, at 400 ISO you will see less grain/chroma noise but also less details.

Ok, here are the crops of the pictures in order as they were:







You can see there is more noise on the third one, the one I have developed - but that may be because I put a bit of sharpening on it.

I could take RAW + JPEG, but I'm the kind of person that if I can take a better quality picture, I have to - I would want everything to look as good as it could.

Someone is in love.

Hahahaha, you can say that again.