KevinFRK

Ha!

You’re finding wisdom - have you yet reached the truth that the only true measure of whether your photo is good is that you like it, not the opinion of others? (dammit, there’s a famous little book I want to quote and I’ve forgotten the title/where my copy is).

In your chain of reasoning, you missed the galaxy of things that occur between what your camera sensor captures (perhaps best reflected in the RAW format version), and the JPG image you eventually view. The whole luminance curve thing involves so much choice by you, your camera or your software. And then there’s all the default sharpening and moiré correction and so forth that is applied without asking (unless you override it).

It also looks like you’ve understood at least some when B&W is worth using!

Very satisfying photo, but what is it? Some kind of sparrow, I guess, but not the sort I’d see in the UK.

I’d imagine Oregonians have become blind to a joke that must be at least decades old or are mutually agreeing to ignore all attempts at this joke.