Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Lemur catta 001.jpg

Lemur catta


To me, the image is a good portrait picture of a Ring-tailed Lemur, showing the full body, face and tail. However, it may need some cleaning up. Suggestions and clean-up help would be appreciated, if possible.


 * Articles this image appears in:Ring-tailed Lemur


 * Creator:Visionholder


 * Suggested by: Visionholder (talk) 02:36, 3 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Comments:
 * I don't think the quality is good enough for FPC. Did you use digital zoom while taking the picture? --Muhammad (talk) 18:35, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
 * No, I specifically avoided digital zoom the entire trip so that I would have good photos when I got home. I was very disappointed with what I thought was my best photo when I zoomed in.  I guess I'm going to have to save up for a new camera.  I'm also sick of these cameras that save in JPEG format – I prefer TIF. –Visionholder (talk) 19:45, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
 * You'll be unlikely to find a camera that saves in TIFF. You're looking for Raw. FWIW a good camera will do a pretty good job with jpeg. Make sure you check your settings though. I usually set them to 'large' and 'fine', though some cameras have a 'superfine' option (but I usually can't see any difference from fine with the image straight from the camera, other than massively increased filesizes). Looking at the exif here though, it seems you've used those settings. For some reason no ISO info is given - I'd guess that this has used auto ISO and cranked it up along with in camera noise reduction, thus producing this quality. These cameras can do better if you keep them to their native ISO range (on this one I'd keep it at ISO 100 whenever possible), though of course the further you zoom from the more they'll struggle with detail as you'd expect (how far away do you reckon this was?). If you're looking at new cameras and you don't want or can't afford a DSLR I'd recommend the Canon G11 as something to strongly consider at a reasonable price. --jjron (talk) 06:51, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, I looks like it was set to ISO/Auto, and I just changed it to ISO/HI (only other setting). Damn.  As for zoom, I was standing very close to the lemur, so zoom was minimal.  I can't say it enough.... DAMN!  For three months in Madagascar, I thought I might have a FPC, and I blew it.  Well, let me look at some of my other photos, but I'm guessing even the best ones will also suffer the same problems.  My digital macro settings seem to have had ISO on HI... unless that changed when I changed my Auto settings.  Maybe one of my many close-ups of the various insects or reptiles might be better...  Anyway, thanks for the detailed feedback and helpful suggestions.  – Visionholder (talk) 17:47, 7 January 2010 (UTC)


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