On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 05:16:56 GMT, "Billy" wrote:


I did a little of this and a little of that to your pic and it cleaned
up pretty nice. Wanna see it?

Of course, as long as you tell me how you did it!


Here ya go--hope you think it is an improvement!

I used Corel Paint Shop Pro. I'm not sure I recall everything I did,
but the key things were that I used High Pass Sharpen (with the radius
set fairly high and soft light), Digital Noise Removal, and I kicked
the contrast up since the Corsair was not standing out enough in your
original.

Now I've got to figure out why pictures with the lens we've both used
aren't sharp enough. I know I'm cropping quite a bit (was that true
with your pic too?), but the whole point of getting a 10 megapixel
camera was to allow me to do such cropping. The speed I'm using is
certainly fast enough (1/1000 while panning with the plane(s)). Could
it be we're just asking too much of our equipment? I looked at some
of the large size images of some of those Oshkosh pictures posted on
Flickr, and they were downright awful even though they looked fine in
the default size on Flickr.

As the doctor said, it is time to run some tests. Today's airshow
will give me plenty of opportunities.