Idaho Mosaic by Marc Adamus

Idaho Mosaic by Marc Adamus

Decided to post something totally different here. No dramatic light, atmosphere or skies in this one. Just trees. Shot this image using a simply processed single exposure at 500mm in SE Idaho last week as the sun was peaking out thorough mostly cloudy skies across the land. Doing a little test now. The last few images I’ve posted were killed by compression here. Both were very simple shots that should have compressed easily but didn’t, but there were several things I needed to rework anyway. Let’s see how the 500px algorithm handles 3.9MP’s of details now…..the verdict? – see for yourself. It’s better than I would have thought, but definitely still smudgy/soft in places. Weird that it seems to do better or at least the same with an image that is 4 times the file size at the same resolution….still, I would say that in the 500px view here you can see about 40-50% fewer details than you can see on my screen uncompressed, quite a significant difference. The details are really my favorite part of this. It would print sharp as can be well over a meter across on paper, I’m sure.

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