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Undertoad · 02-16-2006, 04:08 PM

This WaPo image is a group of starlings, arriving in Algiers. The caption points out that millions of birds migrate from Europe to Africa, and so I wonder whether any of the birds in that shot were also in this one which was taken in Italy.

Beautiful image, and one that really stretches the limits of JPG image compression. This one is about 116k in size. The millions of dots against the colors in the sky are hard for JPG to reproduce correctly. If you have a digital camera that can take images in a "RAW" or "TIFF" mode, this is one time when you might want to use it to get the best possible shot... if you're ever shooting thousands of migrating starlings against a sunset.

02-16-2006, 04:08 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	2/16/2006: Migrating starlings at sunset This WaPo image is a group of starlings, arriving in Algiers. The caption points out that millions of birds migrate from Europe to Africa, and so I wonder whether any of the birds in that shot were also in this one which was taken in Italy. Beautiful image, and one that really stretches the limits of JPG image compression. This one is about 116k in size. The millions of dots against the colors in the sky are hard for JPG to reproduce correctly. If you have a digital camera that can take images in a "RAW" or "TIFF" mode, this is one time when you might want to use it to get the best possible shot... if you're ever shooting thousands of migrating starlings against a sunset.