[Design-team] Names to go with the pictures if you really want them:

[Luya Tshimbalanga]

I let know that GreyCStation is replaced by G'Mic. Thank you for sharing
the pictures and your life experiences as nature photographer.

Luya
Sent from Samsung Galaxy s5
On Aug 21, 2015 1:40 AM, "Andrew Walton" <andrewfixcomputer at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> First email
>
> _mg_0120c.jpg    Red Collared Lorikeet (Trichoglossus rubritorquis)
> _mg_1367c.jpg    Baby Red Backed Fairy Wren (Malurus melanocephalus)
> _mg_4138c.jpg    Blue Winged Kookaburra (Dacelo leachii)
> _mg_4637c.jpg    Whistling Kite (Milvus sphenurus)
> _mg_5799c.jpg    Green Tree Frog
> _mg_7395c.jpg    Lemon Bellied Fly Catcher (Microeca flavigaster)
> _mg_7527c.jpg    Galah (Cacatua roseicapilla)
> _mg_8559c.jpg    Red Tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii)
> [Gaggadju]
>
> Second email
>
> _mg_1291c.jpg    Blue Faced Honey Eater (Entomyzon cyanotis)
> _mg_3882c.jpg    Rainbow Bee Eater (Merops ornatus)
> _mg_6069c.jpg    Some flower (with a bee)
> _mg_6418c.jpg    Magpie Goose (Anseranas semipalmata) [good eating on one
> of them]
> _mg_6464c.jpg    Fig Bird (Sphecotheres viridis)
> _mg_7505c.jpg    Bar Shouldered Dove (Geopelia humeralis)
> _mg_7534c.jpg    Butterfly
> _mg_7615c.jpg    Sulphur Crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita)
>
> Just a little info on the photography for anyone that's interested:
>
> The camera was a Canon 400D, the cheap kit that came with the 75-300 mm
> F5.6 lens which was used for most of these pictures. All the shots are
> taken with the camera "hand held" because the stupid birds won't stay
> still. All of the best shots are the opportunistic ones, not the ones where
> I sat still as a stone for hours on end.
>
> Some of the photos were taken with a Rubinar 500 mm Macro F5.6 lens that I
> had made in 2009. Using that Hand Held is a challenge. The 400D camera was
> before we had image stabilization so there was a bit of skill involved, the
> Rubinar lens was designed in the 1930's and requires a lot of skill even
> with a tripod. Beautiful lens when you get it right though.
>
> And a tip for young players - make a folder to work from for each new task
> and put copies of the pictures you want to work with in there. Never edit
> your originals, that always ends in tears.
>
> If you use a Canon camera and Linux you'll soon notice that Canon have
> created their own unique format for RAW images. Most programs will tell you
> that the image is 48 bits per pixel, technology we don't have yet. Their
> RAW files are actually 4 layers @ 12 bits per pixel, Red Blue Green and
> Transparency. This causes problems when you convert from raw to jpg. So I
> use an old stand alone WinXP system to run the Canon software and do the
> initial conversion, then back to Linux and the latest version of Gimp to
> edit using GreyCstoration for the noise removal.
>
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