Merry Christmas from the Animal Kingdom Lodge

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Grumpwurst

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Here is a picture I took of the Christmas Tree in the lobby of the Harkness Hideaway (aka The Animal Kingdom Lodge). I was standing on the end of the lobby where the giant window overlooking the savannah is located

I am really proud of this one. I did some tweaking in Picasa 3 to try and get it to pop better and I know someone with better post-processing talent in a "real" program can probably make it look even better. But I'm posting the before and after shots here

Here is the after
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Here is the before
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Thanks Paul!

I really think there is more that could be done to improve it. Picasa only really lets you tweak white balance, highlights, shadows, and fill light
 
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Sometimes just a tweak is all it needs. Sometimes I feel I over do it at times with the adjustments. That said, I have been using Adobe Lightroom for awhile now and like it a great deal. It includes noise reduction which helps out quite a bit on some of the higher ISO shots that I took at Mousefest.
 
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Thanks Scott.

I'm constantly amazed at what I'm finding came out of my new Nikon D300. I'm not sure if it's the professional-grade body or the 18-200 VR lens or both
 
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"Paul" said:
Sometimes just a tweak is all it needs. Sometimes I feel I over do it at times with the adjustments. That said, I have been using Adobe Lightroom for awhile now and like it a great deal. It includes noise reduction which helps out quite a bit on some of the higher ISO shots that I took at Mousefest.
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If you were to view the original 12mp RAW file there is A LOT of noise because the AUTO ISO feature cranked it to ISO 2500. I'm still a n00b when it comes to post processing. I'm finally liking stuff coming out of my camera.
 
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"Grumpwurst" said:
Picasa only really lets you tweak white balance, highlights, shadows, and fill light
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that's really all you need, most times. nice job.
 
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Thanks Tim!

This is one of the photos I've come across that I'm most proud of. I have a couple others of Space Ship Earth I hope to throw up later. It's just a pain to have to shrink my pictures down so they meet the 500k size limitations...haha
 
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if you're using photoshop, the save for web works awesome... alt+ctrl+shft+S and follow the dialog boxes. 80% is plenty good enough.
 
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"mSummers" said:
Nice work Ray! Glad you like the new camera
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To say I like it would be an understatement. As I'm going through my pictures for my trip report, I'm finding that I'm loving this camera
 
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"Craig" said:
That's a great one Ray! I too am glad the new camera is working so well!!!
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You and Roger got me excited about it. I was shooting better than I ever had immediately. I'm trying to see if I have any other TMIP worthy pictures
 
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i know the feeling. i cannot wait to unleash the Mark2 at WDW...
 
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