depscribe's photos with the keyword: Dennis E. Powell

Formal national attire is part of the International Food Festival, held on Court Street in Athens, Ohio each spring

Having messed around with -- and not liked -- the "Active D-Lighting" in the Nikon D7100 shooting menu, I messed around with and very much do like the nondestructive "D-Lighting" in the retouch menu. Here's a straight OOC JPEG, entirely unremarkable.

You would not believe how heavily cropped the original image is. The D7100 is really sharp. So is the 18-200mm Nikkor -- this was taken with that lens at full zoom.

Which I guess makes me now an official D7100 owner -- best I can tell, D7100 owners take pictures only of birds.

Having shot RAW+JPG, I used the D7100's retouch menu D-Lighting, which brought out a lot that was hidden in the shadows in the default exposure. Yes, it flattens things a bit, but in this case that's not awful. This was with the Retouch D-lighting on its normal setting; there is a "Low" choice, which does less, and a "High" choice, which does more. It's useful when (and I can't believe I'm saying this) contrast gets out of hand. Interestingly, the process increases the size of the resulting JPEG by about a third.

And a beautiful day.

Playing with the 55-300 Nikkor on a D7100. Pixel peep all you want -- you'll learn nothing useful from this picture, because it was shot wide open at 300mm, with a depth of field the thickness of a sheet of onionskin. Just figure that if I have to live with dandelions, I might as well make such use of them as I can.

My friend Jeff Young took it. I'm in an Iraqi bunker near Kuwait City. Saddam's army booby trapped some of these on the way out, but this one was safe, or I was too booby even for them.