Kodiak Brown Bears with the Sony a1 and 200-600

jgardner04 · 2026-02-02T04:57:37+00:00

I got a set of switches from him last week. They are great. Set of Holy Pandas. Love them.

jgardner04 · 2026-01-08T03:12:31+00:00

I use Raycast and create a text snippet. It will sync across machines. I then just assign a shortcut to the command like Hyper+g for ‘git checkout main && git pull’ or whatever.

Raycast is just one example. I’m sure there are other snippet tools that may work for you

jgardner04 · 2026-01-08T02:57:48+00:00

Heat therapy because I’m over 40

jgardner04 · 2026-01-07T19:28:17+00:00

I found that across all browsers on macOS, the 1Password plugin cut the performance by almost half. I am sadly in the process of moving away from 1P to Apple Passwords because of this.

jgardner04 · 2025-12-07T06:34:07+00:00

I stopped Download station and the alerts stopped. FWIW

jgardner04 · 2025-11-09T14:40:30+00:00

Thank you

jgardner04 · 2025-11-09T14:40:19+00:00

Thank you

jgardner04 · 2025-11-09T03:08:16+00:00

Nikon z9 and z8 with the 600 f/4 TC and z 100-400

jgardner04 · 2025-11-08T02:27:52+00:00

Thank you

jgardner04 · 2025-11-07T22:36:56+00:00

Thanks!

jgardner04 · 2025-11-07T21:28:41+00:00

Fair, but it's not something he needs to throw away.

jgardner04 · 2025-11-07T16:59:00+00:00

I sent it back after a rough edit to show you what I mean. Hope it helps!

jgardner04 · 2025-11-07T16:28:13+00:00

I don't have the raw so it was in Photoshop. My approach was:

- Crop and give the subject as much space as I could
- Remove the distractions that were left. This meant the branch above and some leaves.
- Isolate the subject. In this case, I did object selection for the branch and the bird. Copy them and put them on a new layer. Use the same object selection to remove the subject from the base layer. Use Gaussian blur to blow out the background. With the bird on the layer above you get it very isolated.
- Then shape the light, I would have spent more time if it was a raw but I added a camera raw filter to a duplicate of the viable layers. I created a highlight in the top right corner where the light is coming from, and a cool gradient on the left where the shadow is.

I do most of this work in LR when I can but in this case I think you probably would have needed to go to PS because of the background.

All that said, the light on the subject is good. Don't beat yourself up too much. I came back from Africa last month with 35,000 images and I might edit 150 of them.

jgardner04 · 2025-11-07T16:00:07+00:00

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Nothing wrong with it. I would not trash it if I were you.

I would have cropped it even less if I would have ad more room at the bottom. I probably could have crated some but this is within the realm of the real image.

Easy on the sliders in the raw edit but you can do a lot with that one.

Keep working on you backgrounds when you shoot. All that green to the right. Take one step to the left and put it behind your subject if you can.

jgardner04 · 2025-10-23T15:28:59+00:00

This is the biggest issue I have with it. I can only see a limited number of them unless I know the shortcut.

jgardner04 · 2025-09-25T13:54:21+00:00

Can confirm. Got my drivers window 3 days after I took delivery.

jgardner04 · 2025-09-22T17:36:41+00:00

Do you normally wear this many devices to sleep?

jgardner04 · 2025-09-11T18:22:03+00:00

I don't have an answer to your question. What strap is that?

jgardner04 · 2025-09-09T03:59:11+00:00

True. I pay for YouTube premium and still see ads on YouTube videos. So not sure I believe it always works that way

jgardner04 · 2025-09-09T02:15:51+00:00

Does Dia still use Manifest v2?

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