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I was really hoping the photography portion of the campfire was devoid of egos, insults and arguments. I'm more interested in learning through discussion than I am at asserting self defined greatness. I'm sure that list is quite long. Apparently it won't get any shorter here without dealing with negative comments. I'm out.

Ones eyes and brain are far more capable of integrating a wide array of extreme color and intensity information than even the most complex of digital or film cameras. Even in Stick's excellent image above, one sees little to no texture in the black and cream realms of the photo. Mid tones, yes. In life, our eyes can sort it out, but the camera really has issues. My wife's greatest frustrations are things like black bears, bison, and white ish birds.

Where a camera really beats our eyes is in the focusing department. Take a moment to look around and one notices that his eyes can really focus on about 1 or 2% of his total field of view. All the objects remain in view and we can tell they're still there, but only a very small central point really has focus. Even when reading a line of text here, only 1 or two words can be in focus. One can not decipher a word 1 inch up/down or over without shifting focus. Fortunateley, we are equipped with relatively rapid scanners.

Here's one of the few blackish birds that my wife had some luck with (raven), and this was with a point n shoot and some fill in flash.


Here's one not so good. Essentially nothing in the black zones.

Black Labs are hard to get good pics of. Every year when the magnolias are in bloom I spend a bunch of time on shooting them. I STILL HAVEN'T GOTTEN THE SHOT THAT I SEE IN MY MIND'S EYE. It has been 7 years since I started the project. Don't know if I'll ever get it. I do have a shot that I titled "Essence of Magnolia" but that shot is so highly edited as to really make it a whole differen image than that which I orginally shot.