1cm long hairy caterpillar.

[JBW]

Still working in JPEG and Gimp.

[george013]

Still working in JPEG and Gimp.

Looks good.
Is it possible to choose for tiff in your camera? If so you don't have the 8 bit depth and compression of the jpg. And Gimp must be able to handle that too.

George

[JBW]

Looks good.
Is it possible to choose for tiff in your camera? If so you don't have the 8 bit depth and compression of the jpg. And Gimp must be able to handle that too.

George

Nope JPEG or RAW

[Stagecoach]

Good one Brian, I bet this was not one of your long exposures

I had a play and knocked the highlights back a bit plus lifted the shadows on his/her body.

[JBW]

Good one Brian, I bet this was not one of your long exposures

I had a play and knocked the highlights back a bit plus lifted the shadows on his/her body.

You'd win that bet. I miss my Capture 1. I'm sure there are ways to make those adjustments in Gimp but I can't remember them.

[xpatUSA]

Looks good.
Is it possible to choose for tiff in your camera? If so you don't have the 8 bit depth and compression of the jpg. And Gimp must be able to handle that too.

George

Nope, sorry George.

The standard GIMP V 2.8 is 8-bit. A Beta version 2.9 by Elle Stone can do 16-bit but maybe Brian doesn't have that version?

Can't help but say that we should write "the GIMP" because that's the correct short-hand for "the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)."

https://www.gimp.org/
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[DanK]

Looks good.
Is it possible to choose for tiff in your camera? If so you don't have the 8 bit depth and compression of the jpg. And Gimp must be able to handle that too.

George

None of my digital cameras have been able to save in any formats other than JPEG and raw, but perhaps some do.

Brian,

More informative than the software you used would be what you did with it. There is a great deal of overlap in what software packages can do. My guess is that you could get virtually identical results using any of the major packages. And the impact of JPEG vs. raw is likely to be minor unless you have to do really substantial edits or got the WB way off.

IMHO, you captured the detail in the caterpillar very well, but the background is a real problem. Because it is so complex, it's very distracting, and there is a lot of it in this image. At my low level of skill, I wouldn't be able to fix this in post because any effort to blur the background will also blur the hairs. Sometimes there isn't much to be done about this during capture, but sometimes you can coax critters to crawl onto something simpler, like a piece of paper or wood.

Dan

[JBW]

None of my digital cameras have been able to save in any formats other than JPEG and raw, but perhaps some do.

Brian,

More informative than the software you used would be what you did with it. There is a great deal of overlap in what software packages can do. My guess is that you could get virtually identical results using any of the major packages. And the impact of JPEG vs. raw is likely to be minor unless you have to do really substantial edits or got the WB way off.

IMHO, you captured the detail in the caterpillar very well, but the background is a real problem. Because it is so complex, it's very distracting, and there is a lot of it in this image. At my low level of skill, I wouldn't be able to fix this in post because any effort to blur the background will also blur the hairs. Sometimes there isn't much to be done about this during capture, but sometimes you can coax critters to crawl onto something simpler, like a piece of paper or wood.

Dan

I t4end not to move my subject. I may be wrong but i figure they have a reason for being where they are.