Lotsa whiskers

Recty

Recty

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The camera always amazes me, the detail that I can see in critters that I've never seen with my naked eye is just crazy. Look at all the whiskers on this little dude :)

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I thought this was cool, you can actually see his pupils. I can honestly say I've never seen a squirrel's pupil before.

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Anyway, I was mowing the lawn yesterday for hours (taking it back over from years of free growth) and this little guy came out so I took a little photography break. Hope you enjoyed the pictures, I enjoyed the break :)
 
Haha, yes. I'm very glad I went ahead and got the 100-400mm lens :)

That's what I'm using, Canon's 100-400L.
 
It's neat, isnt it? The cool thing is I can print most of these out easily at 20x16 and still have them tack sharp.
 
Good deal.

So 20x16 is a 5x4 (4x5 / 8x10) format, or 1.25:1 aspect ratio. I'm guessing your camera shoots a 1.5:1 pic. When you take an image to Costco to be printed, have you cropped it to a 1:25:1 image already? Or does Costco "autocrop"? Or do you just let it be squished to fit (original aspect ratio altered)?
 
Yep, my camera is taking it at 1.5:1 format. I take my RAW image in Photoshop, make the necessary adjustments then I set the selection tool to 20w and 16h, then drag out a selection and hit crop, so that gets me the correct ratio. Then I just save as a high quality jpg and email it to them and go pick it up anytime I want.
 
Recty- you're happy with the 16x20 done at Costco? How are they with color management? I have a huge Epson printer, but sometimes I wonder if it is actually worth the expense of ink and keeping up on maintnance for prints. I mean it turns out an unreal print, but it comes at a steep price time wise for me.

Have you gone bigger? I often go 16X30.

Oh, BTW, I hope you don't have some sort of squirrel fetish with all these monster squirrel prints in your house. It might give your new dtr some sort of phobia regarding oversized rodants :).
 
IPT said:
Recty- you're happy with the 16x20 done at Costco? How are they with color management? I have a huge Epson printer, but sometimes I wonder if it is actually worth the expense of ink and keeping up on maintnance for prints. I mean it turns out an unreal print, but it comes at a steep price time wise for me.

Have you gone bigger? I often go 16X30.

Oh, BTW, I hope you don't have some sort of squirrel fetish with all these monster squirrel prints in your house. It might give your new dtr some sort of phobia regarding oversized rodants :).
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I'm very happy with the 20x16 I've gotten out of Costco. One of my flower pictures they reprinted 4 times until they got it right, all without me complaining about it. They just printed, it didnt look perfect, so they printed again, and again, and again and it finally met their standards. They do a good job.

I'm sure you Epson probably does a better job, but this is $6 and easy as pie to get... Money being what it is nowadays I'll never plunk down $1000 or $2000 for a photoprinter unless I was doing professional work.

Anyway yeah, I'm really happy with Costco. I've got some of my pictures displayed at work and everyone always comments on how great they are and how in the world did I get a picture printed that big and that quality and yada yada yada, certainly the average person thinks that the quality of the Costco prints is amazing.

The nice thing is the time... you just get onto the website, upload the photos, say how many of each you want and hit send and then the next day go pick it all up. It's very easy.

I dont actually have a squirrel picture printed out yet, but I just know since I'm not cropping these pictures at all, I'd be able to do a 20x16 easily and still have tons of detail.
 
funny story about that Epson. I wanted the 13" wide version (I think it was the E2000 or somethign at the time....this goes back a lot of years). My uncle who is all about having the biggest and best was trying to get me to get the bigger one (the 4000). To me it seemed stupid. I'd rarely go that big print wise, and the printer weighs in at 90#'s (I had an old school real wet darkroom back then and was doing 16x20 Cibachromes at the biggest - those are some b e a u t i f u l prints!).

Well, he was doing quite well financially at the time and "made" me get the bigger one (by paying the difference. Ha, the joke was on me. Now it costs me almost as much to replace the ink cartridges as it would for me to have bought the other printer!! Though I must say the print quality is pretty amazing.
 
Amazing detail.. nice captures.. I just went canon myself.. My Zoom purchase will definitely be an L series lens..
 
Reef Bass said:
I remember the cibachrome days.
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LOL - is this dating us? Pretty soon we'll be telling people "yeah, back in the day we used to use bright lights with a lens on tall rails. Then in total darkness we'd put the exposed photo paper in a tube, add chemical, remove chemicals, rinse, add chemicals, then rinse it". Then after 15 mins of that we would remove the print from the canister and see there was a tiny filament on the slide we missed and it shows up as a huge hair on the enlarged print!! Oh, did I mention that we had to always monitor the temperature? that even if we nailed the print and went to make another copy invariably something would shift and it would come offslightly different. Oh, there was no soft proofing or layers for color shifts. You had to eyeball the color correction with a filter, add it, do 15 mins of development and see if you got it right. Yeah, those were the days :fun5:.
 
Crazy :)

I took a small photography course in school and developed my own film in the darkroom and this was the simple way, it was still quite a process. I cant imagine trying to get a professional quality print to develop.
 
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