Monday, November 16, 2020

Image Quality Test

A test of image quality before and after a simple HTML tweak.
Blackpoll Warbler before tweak

Nikon Z6 500mm PF ISO 5000 1/400 s f/7.1
Blackpoll Warbler after tweak

Nikon Z6 500mm PF ISO 5000 1/400 s f/7.1



On the LH side of Blogger tool bar there's a pencil symbol with a down arrow which switches between HTML view and Compose view.

Select HTML view. 

What you're looking for is something like this :-

  src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_aA9zSiqoBGRbGtdyZVYh5G8gv5sMQRRLGcYukXRZQMfCOQlqJSE1Hs1UjyjgSdpuKJvyh-cNBctyuiGrCpdZS0Jw5l0WBnSHnkZVJ7PgLRyQwcVl1DdSH4sRU6pwZEw749MkEwBkXik/s600/Blackpoll+Warbler+1.jpg"
            width="600"
        /></a>

See the bit where it's /s600/ well change that to /s1600/ that's all you have to do.

A few qualifications, I enter my 1600x1200 px images as X-Large.

If you do add your images in Compose view for some reason the HTML code changes for some reason known only to Google developers or people smarter than me.

Added in Compose view without HTML change

Added in Compose view with HTML change




If you do add an image in Compose view the portion of underlying HTML code will look like this:-

 src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0e6Fu_31BU89lqEMBgi93p5yXHf308Ywxfkdehsb6TZUDQKSRjKx7Eux6qtyEGAq2Fg_t_0mSF_R6NSBxzpl9E5bazippsz0-eDFylTSzGOUasnsYK0VTDdMGFzxMbn6D1kaKoM24sE8/w640-h480/Blackpoll+Warbler+1.jpg"
            width="640"
        /></a>

Where it says /w640-h480/ I double it to /w1280-h960/ which also seems to work OK.

If any real HTML programmers know of a better way to achieve better quality representations then I'm interested.




Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Monday Hawkwatch

As the 2nd Mountain Hawkwatch is on an 18,000 acre National Guard Training Facility we're used to being buzzed by a variety of military aircraft. This Marine Corps KC-130J Hercules overflew us several times and pretty low. I had my camera set on a very fast shutter speed of 1/5000 sec for migrating Raptors so that freezes the whirling propeller blades, in reality they were spinning very fast.

Marine Corps KC-130J


We spread some seed on the tree stump which attracted the usual crowd.

Dark-eyed Junco

Tufted Titmouse

Tufted Titmouse

White-breasted Nuthatch 

 

Sunday, November 8, 2020

Sunday Evening Colors

While trying to capture an image of a Pileated Woodpecker this evening I gave up and took these instead.

Sunday Birds

 Very bright Sunday morning and the feeder was quite active so I stuck the lens out the window and took these. 


American Goldfinch

Downy Woodpecker

Northern Cardinal
Red-bellied Woodpecker

Starling



Thursday, November 5, 2020

Yard Birds

 Yesterday was bright and sunny and very cold at just around freezing. I had planned to get the leaves chopped up prior to bagging them using big John Deere but it was too damn cold. I decided I was going to photograph the feeder birds instead. I did the leaves later on when it had warmed up a lot BTW.


Blue Jay

Carolina Chickadee (probably)

Carolina Wren

Carolina Wren

Tufted Titmouse

Tufted Titmouse

Tufted Titmouse 

Tufted Titmouse

White-breasted Nuthatch



White-breasted Nuthatch


Tuesday, November 3, 2020

More Evening Grosbeak

I added a few more of the Evening Grosbeak. I had another wander round the Gamelands this morning as the flock down there had been reported again. No luck unfortunately but it was a nice morning to be out in the sunshine. 

Evening Grosbeak at the feeder

Evening Grosbeak

Evening Grosbeak