Flickr Is Really Starting To Bug Me ... Big Time!
I have three images of this Yellow Rumped Warbler ... one of which you will never see. Not because I don't want you to see it. I do. I really do! But I have no way of showing it to you unless you come visit me and I boot up my computer and show it to you.
Oh, I uploaded it alright. But this is what Flickr does to it! Please don't say it's a nice image ... because it just isn't!
If you want to see the best approximation of what came out of my camera and is on my computer look at the next image. I got it by putting the photo in Photoshop Elements and turning the Midtone Contrast way down and the Brightness up. After that, I'd say it's about a 50%- 60% approximation of what the photo actually looks like.
So, here's some what I'd like you to look at:
1. No detail in the cheek feathers to the left of the eye.
2. No detail in the beak.
3. Beak almost disappears in the dark feathers surrounding it.
4. No eye detail.
5. Hardly any detail in the bird's claws.
6. Very dark shadow on the bottom of the tree branch.
7. End of the bird's claws almost disappear in that shadow.
8. Leg is almost lost in the shadow,
9. The lower white breast feathers are dark ... should be lighter.
10. And, worst of all ... just look at the dark breast feathers, those between the yellow feathers and the white. The tips of those feathers are white and form concentric arcs all the way down. But you can't see that! It's like someone has taken a paint brush, dipped it in black paint, and smeared it all over those black feathers, those of the cheek feathers, and the beak ... practically eliminating any detail! Detail that was there, I can definitely assure you!
What is going on? Is someone at Flickr is turning the contrast of uploads way up? That's how I managed to take my perfectly good image and turn it into a piece of crap like this ... I cranked the contrast up. But if Flickr is doing that, why? Because someone there thinks uploaded images will look better with the contrast jacked up? When I became a member here nine years ago, I had a 4 Mega Pixel Kodak CX7430. Images uploaded from that little point-and-shoot were better looking on Flickr than I'm getting now ... relatively speaking.
Here's a question for whoever's responsible for this stuff at Flickr: Why doesn't a photograph that comes out of my Nikon D810 and transfers to my computer without any problems not upload to Flickr and look exactly the same when it gets there?
Flickr, please stop messing with the uploads!
Flickr Is Really Starting To Bug Me ... Big Time!
I have three images of this Yellow Rumped Warbler ... one of which you will never see. Not because I don't want you to see it. I do. I really do! But I have no way of showing it to you unless you come visit me and I boot up my computer and show it to you.
Oh, I uploaded it alright. But this is what Flickr does to it! Please don't say it's a nice image ... because it just isn't!
If you want to see the best approximation of what came out of my camera and is on my computer look at the next image. I got it by putting the photo in Photoshop Elements and turning the Midtone Contrast way down and the Brightness up. After that, I'd say it's about a 50%- 60% approximation of what the photo actually looks like.
So, here's some what I'd like you to look at:
1. No detail in the cheek feathers to the left of the eye.
2. No detail in the beak.
3. Beak almost disappears in the dark feathers surrounding it.
4. No eye detail.
5. Hardly any detail in the bird's claws.
6. Very dark shadow on the bottom of the tree branch.
7. End of the bird's claws almost disappear in that shadow.
8. Leg is almost lost in the shadow,
9. The lower white breast feathers are dark ... should be lighter.
10. And, worst of all ... just look at the dark breast feathers, those between the yellow feathers and the white. The tips of those feathers are white and form concentric arcs all the way down. But you can't see that! It's like someone has taken a paint brush, dipped it in black paint, and smeared it all over those black feathers, those of the cheek feathers, and the beak ... practically eliminating any detail! Detail that was there, I can definitely assure you!
What is going on? Is someone at Flickr is turning the contrast of uploads way up? That's how I managed to take my perfectly good image and turn it into a piece of crap like this ... I cranked the contrast up. But if Flickr is doing that, why? Because someone there thinks uploaded images will look better with the contrast jacked up? When I became a member here nine years ago, I had a 4 Mega Pixel Kodak CX7430. Images uploaded from that little point-and-shoot were better looking on Flickr than I'm getting now ... relatively speaking.
Here's a question for whoever's responsible for this stuff at Flickr: Why doesn't a photograph that comes out of my Nikon D810 and transfers to my computer without any problems not upload to Flickr and look exactly the same when it gets there?
Flickr, please stop messing with the uploads!