Hey everybody. Since it is December tomorrow, I thought I would offer a few little ‘forum stocking stuffers’ for all the great people here, in the form of an offer to do some photo triage/rescue on shots that you love, or have special attachment to – or ones that just don’t have enough in their current state to make it through the ID stages.
No promises on the success of that, of course. The last round when I did this (when I first joined) brought out a few unbelievable challenges, that were pretty hopeless, but overall, I think most people were happy with the offered results.
So starting tomorrow, I will try to take on an image a day to fix up until, well, I’d like to say Christmas, but I have to travel so I’ll have to cut it back to Dec. 20. So the first twenty requests (one per member, please) I will accept and if I have more time in my schedule, I’ll let everyone know.
You will need to post the images here (preferred) but if they’re already up on iNat, just give me the link to your observation. If you’re curious, I use a suite of image enhancing tools (and a good bit of experience) that hopefully will make everything more merry and… bright, or dark. (A lot depends on the exposure problem.)
Extreme blurred images (like nothing but big fat blobs)? I wish I was Santa, but I don’t have that kind of magic.
The more resolution the better for submission, the jollier the results. And of course, if you have your actual camera file to share, that’s the best. (RAW? Gold!) I’ll do my best to sort out your worst.
AND… please don’t think that I only want to work on trying to find detail in very low-resolution zooms, or over-exposed shots. I’m also able to repair many other problems including UNDER-exposure (or too dark – these are actually more hopeful pixels to work with!), or slightly out of focus. Or maybe you have a killer shot that is just a little too soft on the focus. Wouldn’t it be nice to see it all sharpened nicely? Or colour problem? Wrong lighting? I would just like to see variety and if you have something new, even better. I encourage you to give it a shot and test me.
Preemptive happy holidays, iNaturalists!
PLEASE NOTE!
Because I am working on these images that you post here as attachments, and not as the original, to achieve the best results, please be sure that the image size is as close to the iNat image size cap of 2048 (longest side) pixels.
This holds particularly true for any image that you feel contains something you want enlarged but is just a small bit in the original shot.
FOR THESE TYPE OF IMAGES, please crop the original file (if you still have it) so that no side of the image is greater than 2048. This way I will have the best chance of working out good results.
If you don’t know how to crop an image, let me know and I’ll walk you through it on a free photo editing site or with software you probably already have. Thanks!