All my images have the EXIF data intact, assuming you are using Firefox just right click on a photograph and choose properties, all will be revealed. For those on other browsers, just follow the link in my sig and choose ‘show EXIF’ in any of the photographs you are interested in.

Excellent set Gary (wonder how many more times we stand chance of seeing a Air Atlantique liveried Dak?). Pity it crossed with Breighton, would have loved to have been there myself.

No problem 🙂

No, your version of Photoshop (7.0) will not open Nikon D70S raw files as it is John. You have the option of installing a plug-in from Nikon to allow as this (to a very limited extent, no adjustments bar exposure and white balance being possible), or upgrade to the latest version on photoshop that will allow D70S RAW files to be fully manipulated.

Personally I prefer to use Nikon Capture to process my raw files which are then passed over to photoshop for finishing off as web jpgs. Its available as a 30 day free trial if you want to experiment with it. I’m still with Photoshop 7 too and this method works well for me.

The halo and oversharpening are definitely processing artefacts I’m afraid John, rather than heat haze. (which means it should be easy to get rid of them since it was taken as a raw image). Here’s what I mean by a halo, it goes from dark, to white to light.

and here is the stair stepping problem

As I say they are purely artefacts introduced in the processing stage so it should be an easy remedy.

But will reduce the file size by a useful 25% or so.

Some people are still on dial-up.

Moggy

Nope, file size is identical. For example

a 600 pixel wide image at 300ppi

74783 bytes(74KB)

the very same image, same level of compression, at 72ppi

74783 bytes (74KB). Identical. Pixels and level of compression used affect file size, not PPI setting.

The only difference is if you print the images the first one will be 2 inches wide, the second one 8.33 inches wide (and that is assuming you are printing from an application that understands the ppi tag, and the PCs printer driver does not rescale the image to fit the paper being used)

Its quite badly oversharpened, you’ve got visible halos on the light/dark boundaries and stair stepping on the diagonals. Try backing off the unsharp mask when processing.

If photoshop is a bit daunting give Infraview a go, its ok for free and does an easy ‘resize for web’.

hth

Looked like the normal Breighton showmanship to be honest, I’ve often seen the biplanes dancing round those trees and the hangars to the north of the strip. I was similarly impressed by the intimate nature of the action when I first visited, make the big shows seem pretty staid in comparison.