January Meeting ?

[kamar]

I know, a little overboard on the testing. I just know that Devon avoids clicking, so thought he might have missed these. Two birds with one stone . . .

Ah, that's a Naso - I was wondering what kind of tang that was. You know, I think he has a look about him like "Doh, I just got caught!"

 

[CarlaW]

He is the "old man of the tank" Kim, he can have any look he wants. He is a Blonde Naso, and he is the mellowest thing on Gods green earth, I have never ever seen anyone mess with him or him mess with anybody else. He eats caulerpa like a little kid eats spaghetti, starts at one end and doesn't stop until it is gone. Thanx for the great pic of him.
What lens were you using?

 

[kamar]

Awww . . . he's just a sweet old man, then. I was using the Canon 50mm macro. It seems to be working out pretty well for me. You want an enlargement of anything for you wall?

 

[CarlaW]

Sure, I would throw that pic up on the wall downstairs for sure, thanx

 

[kamar]

You bet - I think I have a couple more photos of your finny friends that you might like too.

 

[CarlaW]

I don't suppose you have the original photos do you. I used to keep all the originals, but I don't anymore, I just resize them and keep those. I have more pics of that emperor than you can shake a stick at, from the time he went into the tank until now. I know it is kind of fun to look back to when he was hidden underneath the rocks in total terror every time the Naso swam by.

 

[kamar]

Yes, I do have all of the originals, and in RAW format too, which is pretty much all I shoot in. The colors are so much truer with all of that extra data in RAW. Then I "save as" a JPEG if I want to do anything with them so I have both.

 

[CarlaW]

What size is the RAW format??? I wish I had taken a little bit of time Saturday and talked to you about that. I have never shot in that format, and would like to try a few just to see what they are like. Sounds like I need to do some reading. I haven't looked for that on elements 7, do they have a special way of getting those from the camera too?

 

[kamar]

They're quite a bit bigger. I looked, and the angel picture for example, is 8.44 mb in JPEG, vs 15.8 mb in RAW format. I use Photoshop Elements 8, and it has the Adobe Raw Converter in it that opens and allows you to adjust settings like exposure, contrast, color temp (this is a huge deal when shooting fish tanks), etc. The extension for a RAW Canon picture is .CR2. After I adjust stuff, then I just "save as" a JPEG and then resize it for the web if I'm sharing it. I will show you how to shoot one from start to finish if you want to try it.

 

[CarlaW]

Well heck yeah, I'll bring my laptop down to the meeting, it has elements 7 on it. I have been looking in there but I can't see where I can download the Raw files. I will do a little more searching around

 

[CarlaW]

Kim, I found what I was looking for about RAW files, and I think I can get thru it. I have been playing around most of the morning, just waiting for the halides to come on . If I have any questions I will get in touch thru here and maybe we can figure this out. Thanx for the help so far.

 

[sarmo]

do you ever work!!!!!

Julie met your friend Dave the other day......

 

[cdearing]

I was wondering the same thing.

 

[CarlaW]

do you ever work!!!!!

Julie met your friend Dave the other day......

I was wondering the same thing.

Wasn't today a nice day to have off??