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![Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 200 W: 16 N: 483]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-s-g.gif) (1995) | Hi Folks , last evening I decided again that it would be nice to go and pay a visit to the beavers , I left home a couple hours before sunset knowing they will not be out till the sun is near to setting. Beavers are a little flexible on this , I see them any where from 7;30 in the evening on , most of their activity is during the night time hours.
this is not the same beaver as my last upload of one , I have no count on how many could be in this area of the river but the tail of the other was much less wide , I am not really sure if this is a gender trait or not , but suspect they are likely mates , hope fully this year I will get a chance to photo the two together. I have not spent all that much time with the beavers this year , I guess it shows but I have been enjoying the macro lens a lot :-)
Castor canadensis
I am sure many folks here are familiar with the 'hinterlands whos' who' web pages... though I don't care much for many of the write ups I have seen on the beaver , this site has a very good one , that is not overly focused on the beavers engineering skills.
one thing I have noticed living in an area with many beavers , is that although they do come ashore at night , they seldom leave very much for foot prints. mostly when a foot print is found it will be quite close to the bank , and left in rather thick mud , this print is left on purpose and is marked with a scent ( a musk oil ) , likely to communicate to other beavers "this is my area"
I got to watch this one for some time , I was nearly laying up on the bank , around 5-6 feet away form this fellow , it was a real treat when it came up on this muddy little island to clean its self up a bit.
some how while shooting I ended up changing my file setting from raw to jpeg and took the bulk of the photos as such. to be honest that worked out ok for me , with the lighting I was at a 1600 ISO to maintain 1/200 shutter , and really I cant say that I could handle converting the raw to jpeg as well as the camera compressed the images , I am rather shocked at the low amounts of grain in these photos. my skills/understanding of the RAW format is rather limited though particularly when it comes to making decisions on sharpness/denoising .
here was my camera setting
format -jpeg , fine
size- medium ( 5-6 mega pixel )
high iso N.R. -normal
image optimization features are not available in jpeg mode.
I would not use these settings on purpose , the image size is around half that of the raw file , and a better result could have been obtained from a raw file with better resolution. but thought the result was at least worth mention. I will post an 'actual pixels' sample in the workshop if you would like to see the grain level at these settings.
PP on this image was a small cropping to 8x10 resize for TN and a touch of sharpening.
thanks for stopping in
regards
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Hi this is an actual pixels sample of the photo , it was shot with settings ,
jpeg- fine
size medium (5-6 mega pixel)
high ISO noise reduction - normal
there is not much else for image settings with the jpeg format
though this represents a very small level of noise for a 1600 iso , it is good to consider how much noise would be consumed by a 40% reduction in resolution , I am not that handy with RAW conversion and woulkd strugle with an iso 1600 , but no doubt the raw has higher potential.
regards
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