[birding] Cropping photos of rare birds

[Sue Crawford]

A good solution to enlarging the resolution of smaller photos is the Genuine
Fractals plugin for Photoshop. Of course, nothing is as good as an original
high-resolution file, but this works well enough that it is used by
professional photographers and designers.

Sue Crawford, Creative Director
CrawforDesign, Inc.
Marketing & Creative Services


From: David Irons <llsdirons at msn.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:17:23 +0000
To: Mid-Valley Birders <list at midvalleybirding.org>
Subject: [birding] Cropping photos of rare birds

Greetings All,

This is for all of you who like to document rare birds and get your images
published in North American Birds and elsewhere on actual paper. Please save
your high resolution original photos of rare birds. For the purposes of
North American Birds, for which I serve as a Regional Editor (Oregon and
Washington Region), the photo editor informs me that digital images in files
smaller than 0.5MB (or 500KB) are all but useless when printed. They may
look great on your computer monitor, but they will not reproduce well on
paper. 

I consistently get photo submissions that have been cropped to the point
where they are no more than 50-100KB in size. Files this small will only
look good in print if they are about the size of a small postage stamp. I
know there is a temptation to make the bird as big as possible, I do it
myself, but we are missing out on many opportunities to publish important
photos. 

Last spring I actually resorted to taking a photograph of a small file
picture that I had up on my monitor. Using this method I was able to create
a larger file image of the Red-billed Tropicbird photographed off of
Florence by Larry Hawley. Thankfully, the burlap look of the monitor
feedback does not show up in the printed image. This may well be the first
and hopefully last use of digi-monitoring. First state records require
extraordinary effort.

Thanks,

Dave Irons
Regional Editor North American Birds (Oregon and Washington Region)



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