raedor 8 Posted February 17, 2006 Very nice, BergHoff! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shinRaiden 0 Posted February 18, 2006 Went to Las Vegas (~1400km round trip, down yesterday, back today) for a childhood friend's funeral. 8 hours in a car today + 2 bottles of Mt. Dew, I'll be up all night. Still trying to figure out photography 4 n00bs with my Canon SD400. The funeral pics didn't turn out so hot, but the canyons came out marginally ok. I still get mixed up on the ISO speeds, at least I had remembered to leave it set at the long-range focus auto-setting. -edit- Only thing changed about these posted pics is that they were scaled from 2592x1944 down to 800x600 to fit the filesize rule. Otherwise the extended properties should all be the original specs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shinRaiden 0 Posted February 18, 2006 About 1/3rd of one side of Walmart's main western state's distribution center. So that's where that traffic jam on I-82/84 comes from... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blackdog~ 0 Posted February 18, 2006 Wow, those are some nice pictures of some beautiful scenery shinRaiden. I haven't had the pleasure of going that way yet, I've only been on the roads going into Utah... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shinRaiden 0 Posted February 18, 2006 The canyons pics are the Virgin River Gorge part of I-15 going through the NW corner of Arizona between St. George, UT and Las Vegas, NV. -edit1- The Walmart pic is a few miles north of St. George, and the last pic of the boonies is still further north. The photo-taken timestamp properties are all accurate. -edit2- If you've gone to Zions or Bryce or 'other' spots on up the road coming from SoCal, you should have had to go through that canyon just after Mesquite, NV. -edit3- There was a KC-10 on final approach into Nellis AFB from the north as I was heading home this afternoon. It was a beautiful floating approach and I was right by the speedway. I didn't think to grab a picture though, which really sucks. This morning though there was a couple odd jets circling over the Strip as I was coming into town. Clearly swing wing jets, too acrobatic / public for B-1B, but what would an F-111 or F-14 be doing flipping over downtown Las Vegas? I was going to get a panorama from Apex, but the smog was a bit bad. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
killagee 0 Posted February 18, 2006 Hellfish6: You might find that a Nikon F55 SLR will be the go for you mate. Get some ISO 400 film, which is a bit of a comprominse for all situations. Take lots of rolls! and at least four spare sets of camera batteries A nikon F55 with the cheap 18-200mm lens and you will be sorted mate! Oh, and one of those little camera bags that you can hang tight to the front of your body if you are going to jungle it... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Supah 0 Posted February 19, 2006 Hellfish6: You might find that a Nikon F55 SLR will be the go for you mate. Get some ISO 400 film, which is a bit of a comprominse for all situations. Take lots of rolls! and at least four spare sets of camera batteries A nikon F55 with the cheap 18-200mm lens  and you will be sorted mate!Oh, and one of those little camera bags that you can hang tight to the front of your body if you are going to jungle it... 400 ISO? :| A good compromise? MAN! expect grain city. When I shot on film I shot on Kodakchrome 64 ISO exclusively and I shot fighter jets. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
berghoff 11 Posted February 19, 2006 Anyone have some tips to avoid purple blur in bright pics? Can a filter perhaps reduce this? Some pics don't have it some do. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the_shadow 0 Posted February 19, 2006 how much difference will it be between ISO 100 and ISO 200? i have no clue on settings and stuff like that... (has everything set to aouto now) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Supah 0 Posted February 19, 2006 how much difference will it be between ISO 100 and ISO 200?i have no clue on settings and stuff like that... (has everything set to aouto now) Digital or film? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the_shadow 0 Posted February 19, 2006 sucky digital :P i got about 3 ISO settings... Auto 100 200 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
earl 0 Posted February 20, 2006 Anyone have some tips to avoid purple blur in bright pics? Can a filter perhaps reduce this? Some pics don't have it some do. To reduce purple fringing: -use lower ISO's when possible -don't use digital zoom (evar! ) -some addon lenses increase it (cheap teleconverters) But in the end I think comes from the hardware - some digital cameras are worse than others. Â There isn't much you can do to avoid it, but you can correct it. Â If you use photoshop, try PFree: http://www.sd3.info/pf828/PFree/PFree0-1.html Before: http://www.sd3.info/pf828/PFree/hollyBefore.jpg After: http://www.sd3.info/pf828/PFree/hollyDefault.jpg Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
killagee 0 Posted February 20, 2006 If I need to freeze the action in low light (ie concerts) I sometimes use up to ISO 1000. A little noise reduction in CS2 will fix up the noise, as long as your not using it A3 or bigger... ie: Unfortunatly my D70 doesnt go below 200 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Supah 0 Posted February 20, 2006 sucky digital :Pi got about 3 ISO settings... Auto 100 200 Hmm well in theory you should get less noise at 100 ISO then you'd get at 200 ISO. But that depends very largely on the type of camera you are using. If it has only those two settings I'd be very pessimistic about the quality of the imaging chip. If it has digital in camera noise reduction turn it on and shoot in a low loss format if your camera allows that (RAW or TIFF instead of jpg) to reduce noise more. @Killagee: No lower then 200? Why do they do that especially if it has Image Stabilisation incorporated in the body? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ag_smith 0 Posted February 20, 2006 (...)http://www.kumonet.com/vegas/IMG_0131c.jpg http://www.kumonet.com/vegas/IMG_0132c.jpg http://www.kumonet.com/vegas/IMG_0133c.jpg http://www.kumonet.com/vegas/IMG_0134c.jpg http://www.kumonet.com/vegas/IMG_0135c.jpg http://www.kumonet.com/vegas/IMG_0136c.jpg shinRaiden, that's Virgin river gorge, right? Edit... nevermind, just read a few posts below. Silly me. PS. Awesome pictures, all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
berghoff 11 Posted February 20, 2006 Thanks for the tips and PS filter really handy. Some pics from a forest walk ; Large Large Large Large Large Large http://ofpc.de/berghoff/images/reallife/natuur8.jpg http://ofpc.de/berghoff/images/reallife/natuur10.jpg http://ofpc.de/berghoff/images/reallife/natuur7.jpg http://ofpc.de/berghoff/images/reallife/natuur9.jpg http://ofpc.de/berghoff/images/reallife/natuur11.jpg http://ofpc.de/berghoff/images/reallife/natuur12.jpg All from Limburgia Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HotShot 0 Posted February 23, 2006 The Winterlude pictures are great earl, and this place looks great MIfred. Some sunset ones. 2nd and 3rd from same position. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MI_Fred 0 Posted February 28, 2006 A: macarone, springish weather mod Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the_shadow 0 Posted February 28, 2006 this is a pic taken with my "sucky" camera... it isnt good, but not bad either... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GoOB 0 Posted February 28, 2006 [im]http://www.ofptf.net/users/MI_Fred/RL/0206/_DSC1785e.jpg[/img]A: macarone, springish weather mod I like the mood in this, keep up with the same style Also, did you do any color correction in that picture? Iv'e been trying to accomplish that "faded" look in-Camera on my D70, but to no avail. Went to visit my sister in London, and this is one of the few pictures I managed to snap whilst there; Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blake 0 Posted February 28, 2006 Hmm, some grease on the lense? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MI_Fred 0 Posted March 1, 2006 [im]http://www.ofptf.net/users/MI_Fred/RL/0206/_DSC1785e.jpg[/img]A: macarone, springish weather mod I like the mood in this, keep up with the same style Also, did you do any color correction in that picture? Iv'e been trying to accomplish that "faded" look in-Camera on my D70, but to no avail. No post processing being the standard for all my work here and on the linky in the sig, here's the settings I changed in the camera. It optimizes it by applying: - no sharpening - high tone compression - moderate saturation - color mode II (AdobeRGB) They say the last one is what makes all the difference, just can't remember if it was that or Ia (sRGB) that achieves the so called D70 look heh. Also the 'shade' whitebalance gives out rather yellow midtones, but can't remember the kelvin value for that. Last but not least, the sun has to help a bit. It's reflecting like crazy out of snow and at sunset, which is at 4pm, dyes my place yellow Quote[/b] ]Went to visit my sister in London, and this is one of the few pictures I managed to snap whilst there; [im]http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3492/london5s4kf.jpg[/img] See my optimism, now that is spring. Not the snow we just got more of today. But, I've always wondered that partial blur of yours, it totally reverses it in my eyes and turns it to fall. The wind being always against you and all that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
earl 0 Posted March 1, 2006 Where is the fun of digital photography without post processing? Â x-ray pasta: On a side note, George Smith and Willard Boyle, the scientists who invented the CCD in 1969 were recently awarded the Draper Prize. It was in the news here because Boyle is Canadian. http://www.shortcourses.com/pixels/sensors/boyleandsmith.jpg Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
