Old Images (2 Viewers)

[MikeInPA]

As the White-breasted Nuthatch from 2005 was interesting to some I dug this Flicker out of the archive.
This was taken in March 2007 out of my side window with my Nikon D200 which was archaic compared to todays cameras.
Feel free to post your old shots. Doesn't have to be Nikon.

 

[KC Foggin]

A fantastic close up image of this Flicker Mike!

 

[MikeInPA]

On the continuing theme of old images I rarely dumped any of my images except the really bad ones where I pressed the shutter accidentally or really, really out of focus images. The rest I save knowing that one day post processing would enable these mediocre images to be made pretty good. In a lot of ways that 'one day' is here.

Here's one I saved from a Whale Watch in the Gulf of Maine in 2012, the only thing I've done to it is cropped it to 1600x1200 px.



Now here's the same image after it's been post processed in Capture One and Topaz Sharpen AI and DeNoise AI.



With disk storage being relatively cheap these days and the AI capabilities of post processing software getting better and better it's worth saving your images

 

[KC Foggin]

Two smashing images of this species I'm not aware of Mike.

 

[MikeInPA]

Two smashing images of this species I'm not aware of Mike.

It's a Great Shearwater KC. It's the exact same image just zoomed in a lot.

 

[KC Foggin]

Thanks Mike.

 

[delia todd]

Great pictures Mike.

 

[delia todd]

This was a fairly early picture I took back in 2004. My Osprey avatar. This was digiscoped with a Nikon Coolpix 4500 through a Leica APO77 scope.

The original picture was just cropped, but the white feathers have blown rather and look like wool




I've just tried to play around with the levels on this one and darkened the background a bit, hoping the Osprey would stand out from the background a bit. Also put a tiny white dot in the eye.



My post-processing skills still remain very basic!!!