Your Canon Photos No. 41: 11th to 17th February 2024

David,

That's a lot of pasta...yummy...looks good. Do the words below "mamma mia" mean "pizza, pasta and more" in English? Meer is "more" in Dutch and Mehr is "more" in German from what I could determine.

"Meer" means "The Sea"
"Mehr" means "More"

Italy being Austria‘s main access to the sea is associated with vacation. I think that‘s what they‘re getting at there. Get your dose of vacation feeling, while also eating a lot! 😅

And to add to the meer/more discusion 😄
In dutch "meer" can be translate to "more" as mentioned but also to a lake (See in German) 😁

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Steve Thomas

This is my first attempt ever in shooting RAW and editing in DPP4.

I shot these in RAW at a 1:1 aspect ratio in monochrome. 02/16/24.
With the branches photo, I deliberately kicked the contrast way up to give it that high key look.

I just wondered how they looked on the "big screen".

Steve Thomas

Nice ones Steve!, DPP can do a lot with the canon raw images. I'ts actually my raw processing tool only. Don't use Photoshop or any other software for our digital shots.
Do use Gimp for our analog shots (TIFF images) but that's all 😁

Photobygyms,

Thanks. That was my first time ever shooting n RAW.

I want to learn long-exposure black and white, so I figured I'd better start with the basics.😀

Steve

David,

That's neat to see the moon and Juniper. On Dpreview, we saw someone that would take pictures of Juniper with a telescope and we could see the red spot.

Steve,

That's great you are trying something different. I also took some pictures in RAW recently and with DPP4 I tried to reduce the noise. It was OK, but not that good. So, as I discussed with David, I'm looking for a better denoising software. I'd like to see what pictures at ISO102400 would look like with software noise reduction. Even some of my ISO40000 photos could be improved. It's just something I'm playing around with. But needing ISO levels above 20000, are not that common unless it's really dark etc.

(From last week)

Darktable is a very powerful program. Perhaps predictably, that makes it a pretty complicated program. Most evenings I spend around an hour in darktable, I'm still don't know how to do most things in dt (e.g. masking, which is apparently one of the best features of dt). When I first tried it, after cancelling my short-lived Adobe CC subscription, it looked extremely complicated. Compared to Lightroom, darktable uses a more DIY approach. In LR/LrC (or pretty much any non-FOSS RAW processor, DPP4 included) when you first open the RAW file the program applies some sort of default preset, so your photo looks something like the OOC JPG preview without you doing any work. Darktable doesn't do that. As I was told over at discuss.pixls.us, this is an advantage, as it puts you in charge of the process from the start. IMO, makes dt less friendly to people new to RAW processing.
Control is a very important aspect in darktable.

Yup. There's an auto-generated list here, which isn't exhaustive, as I can't find any EOS R cameras on that list, though most of them are supported. I think if the camera is a year or two old it's probably supported. I've heard that the dev team are pretty helpful and quick when asked for support for a new camera, keeping in mind that that all the developers do it completely in their own time, unpaid.

Awesome!
RAW really gives you a lot of advantages you don't get when shooting JPG.

It's starting to feel like Spring proper.
The birds have started singing, the snowdrops and daffodils are out, and there's frogspawn in the pond.
#1 OOC JPG cropped in digikam. #2 and #3 processed from RAW in darktable.

I was flabbergasted this morning.

There's been a workman working on the roof of a barn on the property.
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He left his extension ladder propped up against the side of the building, maybe 16-18 ft. off the ground, saying he would be back tomorrow.

As I was walking through the room this morning, I glanced outside the window and saw a cat wandering around on the roof of that barn.

As I stood there wondering how in God's name I was going to be able to get that cat off the roof, he calmly walked over to the ladder and came down the steps.

I just shook my head.

Steve Thomas