Too much to hope the clouds had rain in them I suppose - while I knew Ludlow well, I only visited Leominster a couple of times.

Nice sunset, but unless you had a reason I can’t see, it would have been better rotated to horizontal in post-processing - water, especially with reflections, is pretty unforgiving when it comes to showing exactly which way is “up”.

Heh, I needed the title to see what you saw, but once seen … satisfying!

Arguably the light wasn’t very good - these are ISO8000-10000 photos as the patch of thistles was in the shade of the tree. But as you say, enough directional light light make the photos more interesting.

Oh yes, if I see thistles gone to seed, I always look closely for these.

Nice sequence, and also nicely presented within the website - uncluttered, good margins, technical details like ISO available on drop downs, etc.

So, what were you testing, and do you think this passed the test?

As art, to me, a mildly interesting photo from the contrasts, but not terribly exciting,

I suspect I’ve pushed it as far as it will go - as is pretty obvious from the sky whiting out to get more than just black shadows in the sky!

Yes … interesting, just not technically good.

I failed to capture the actual error message, but saw something similar (and “os error 2” seems to match the memory) uploading an image for a post this morning.

I do like the whimsy of the “framing” of the boats.

Thank you.

There’s only one hide at Dinton Pastures, which is based round a set of lakes in old gravel pits. The hide looks out to the one lake kept aside from boating and fishing and so has lots of birds. This bird (and I think a companion I never saw clearly) were in the reeds in front of the hide so really close. But I do have rather a lot of partial shots too :)

Well, I’m glad it’s working now, even if knowing the cause might have been useful.

Carduelis Carduelis in the UK case :)

I believe their plumage remains pretty much the same through their adult life, and males and females are really quite similar (with hints as to sex but not enough to be sure).

This doesn’t sound like the sort of size errors I run into, but there are definitely image size limits (not quite sure if its dimensions or sheer file size) in Lemmy - have you tested with some small images?

That Midnight Sun is giving a lovely light to the flowers and the rest of the composition. Well done!

Thank you for catching those calls - I only ever get the raucous sqwarks!

Thank you!

Whereas all hummingbirds are completely foreign to me - I’ve seen a few in aviary’s and that’s it :)

Uh-huh, and the significant technical differences between those are?

(Hint: a digital video is a sequence of digital photos, usually with digital compression taking advantage of limited changes between adjacent photos, but mostly the same principles as, say, RAW to JPG compression)

OK, I’ll bite - apart from imposing discipline on choosing your shot, and more human control over the process if you develop at home, what are the benefits of film over digital? My working assumption is that if you start with RAW format from any decent sensor, and comparable lenses, you can produce anything you could produce by choice of film, development process or similar - but perhaps I’m wrong!