Kingfishers Dance (Black & white)



A variety of photo management and image enhancement applications are in my iMac. I used all of them in attempts to make it easier for viewers to see the dance movements of the Kingfishers.

Perfect Photo Suite 7 easily changes colour images to black and white (B & W). However, the Kingfishers were still difficult to see in B & W.

Perfect Photo Suite 7 can selectively colour parts of black and white (B & W) images. So, I brushed the Kingfishers to reveal their original colour. The remainder of the image was left in B & W. Thus, the aerial display was immediately visible to viewer in each image. However, the sequence of photos showing the aerial display cannot be displayed in Blogger. Blogger cannot do simple slideshows. 

I discovered Picasa has a tool to publish slideshows to Blogger. So, I installed Picasa in my iMac. I tried several times to publish a Kingfisher slideshow from Picasa to Blogger. It does not work. There are bugs in Picasa. Frustrating! 

Picasa has many capabilities. It enables the creation of movies from still photos. As a result, I decided a "work around" for the problem could be a movie from still photographs.

This is the first time I have tried it. Now, I have learned that the movie pictures are too small to show the Kingfishers. So, it would be better to make a slideshow with full size stills. 

My photographs (RAW format) are stored in RAID external hard drives. A Firewire 800 port provides the connection between the iMac and the RAID external HDs.

Unlike significantly slower photo displays in Aperture 3.4.5, designed by Apple, Perfect Photo Suite 7, and ViewNX 2 by Nikon, Picasa, instantly displays the photographs on my iMac flat panel monitor (mid-2007 computer). So, Apple, Photo Suite and Nikon could improve their applications to match Goggle's Picasa.

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