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What did you all shoot Post process this week?

Post edited by: tspore, at: 2005/09/26 02:05

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These are a few of the test shots from the E-300 last week. I must say its a great camera. The lawn ornament of the bird had some WB issues, but after that it worked fine. I am impressed.

http://fourthirdsphoto.com/components/com_simpleboard/uploaded/images/E300Test13.jpg
http://fourthirdsphoto.com/components/com_simpleboard/uploaded/images/E300Test2.jpg

Post edited by: tspore, at: 2005/09/26 02:04

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http://fourthirdsphoto.com/components/com_simpleboard/uploaded/images/E300Test12.jpg

[NrthrnHrse]

My husband\'s sister has a two month old baby... my nephew by marriage. He\'s very cute and sleepy in this picture. Experimented with coverting it to black/white....grayscale was all I could find in PS CS? :huh: http://fourthirdsphoto.com/components/com_simpleboard/uploaded/images/BW9252678web.jpg

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To convert to B+W in PS go to Adjustment layers (Either at the bottom of the layer box, or image/adjustments) I prefer to make it a layer, then I can always undo it later.
Select channel mixer and then click on the monochrome box.
That will make a B+W image. You will want to play with all three of the adjustments, RGB, and you should try to equal around 100% in the final image.
Hope that helps.
BTW - Cute kid. It\'s better sleeping than crying. B)

Post edited by: tspore, at: 2005/09/26 04:02

[gunnerx]

Took my E300 to my nephew\'s first birthday party. This is the first family gathering for the E300. Used the FL-36 and HLD-3 battery grip. The grip makes portrait shots much easier with the 2nd shutter button.

http://www.gunnerx.com/photogallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24190 &g2_serialNumber=1

[llpoolej]

Remnants of Rita. Shot these while it was drizzling, gotta love the E-1 for that. Used the 50mm macro with the extension tube. I am not too hot at using it yet. All were shot at F2 and varying shutter speeds

http://llpoolej.smugmug.com/photos/37652927-M.jpg

http://llpoolej.smugmug.com/photos/37652988-M.jpg

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That\'s really nice. I love the E-1. I have never regretted buying it.
Good shots, That definitly is one of the advantages of the EX Tube you are able to get really close to the action.
T

[NrthrnHrse]

We FINALLY got some sunshine today. The only flowers left alive in the yard are the sweet peas. http://fourthirdsphoto.com/components/com_simpleboard/uploaded/images/_9262719.jpg

[NrthrnHrse]

Goofed around with the spot meter, the speed and the focus today... the exposure time on this shot had to be at least 2 seconds...:P http://fourthirdsphoto.com/components/com_simpleboard/uploaded/images/_9262713.jpg

[OzRay]

Took a short drive to look at some rocks:

http://www.australianimage.com.au/images/grampians/landscapes/P9276429.jpg

Cheers

Ray

[NrthrnHrse]

Beautiful sky! And great pics of the water drops... makes me want to get a 50mm right now.

[pixelmaniaman]

Hi, yes I think the E300 is a great tool, I was about to decide on which lenses to buy when I saw the newer lenses listed to-day...oh boy what a choice... http://fourthirdsphoto.com/components/com_simpleboard/uploaded/images/Sunbathers.jpg

Post edited by: pixelmaniaman, at: 2005/09/27 14:36

Post edited by: pixelmaniaman, at: 2005/09/27 20:29

[pixelmaniaman]

Great picture...

[lkeeney]

I was not very pleased with either myself or my equipment on this shoot. Her skin was almost blown out and when I adjusted the image in ACR for the correct exposure on her skin, the rest of the image was almost all black. The adjustment on this image is a compromise.

Lawrence

Post edited by: lkeeney, at: 2005/09/27 12:18

Post edited by: lkeeney, at: 2005/09/27 12:19

Post edited by: lkeeney, at: 2005/09/27 12:21 http://fourthirdsphoto.com/components/com_simpleboard/uploaded/images/Laura.jpg

Post edited by: lkeeney, at: 2005/09/27 12:22

[lkeeney]

lkeeney wrote:
I was not very pleased with either myself or my equipment on this shoot. Her skin was almost blown out and when I adjusted the image in ACR for the correct exposure on her skin, the rest of the image was almost all black. The adjustment on this image is a compromise.
http://www.blackcanyonsystems.com/temp-files/Laura.jpg

Lawrence<br><br>Post edited by: lkeeney, at: 2005/09/27 12:18

[pixelmaniaman]

Just to have a good laugh, my two sons many years ago did Judo, I went along with my 35mm slr and did all the pics, layed on the floor, stood on tables did the whole nine yards, when I arrived home guess what ~ no film in camera... 1st and only time that happened...:(

Post edited by: pixelmaniaman, at: 2005/09/27 13:25

[pixelmaniaman]

http://fourthirdsphoto.com/components/com_simpleboard/uploaded/images/Fisherman.jpg

[llpoolej]

Lawrence, that looks like a tough subject to meter! Maybe someone will have a solution for you that would have helped

Have you tried to run it through Viewer/studio to see if it turned out any different? I have had things look very different from ACR to Viewer. Just a thought, probably wouldn\'t make much difference :)

Post edited by: llpoolej, at: 2005/09/27 13:19

[pixelmaniaman]

My suggestion, 1st go to Judo Pictures on the net, then get your client & a judo partner to go thro holds & throws as per the pics on Judo.. you may have to hire a small section of a hall WITH Natural lighting.

Post edited by: pixelmaniaman, at: 2005/09/27 13:15

[pixelmaniaman]

Post edited by: pixelmaniaman, at: 2005/09/27 13:16 http://fourthirdsphoto.com/components/com_simpleboard/uploaded/images/dee7d883fbd03fd1bed987331ba3dc41.jpg

Post edited by: pixelmaniaman, at: 2005/09/27 13:17

[russ.will]

i agree with LL. It\'s the proverbial black cat in a coal bunker situation. It\'s a bit small to see, but the metering seems to have struck the only balance it could with the dynamic range imposed by your subject. A slower shutter speed utilizing the slow sync would help as the flash would be reduced to a fill in role, but that\'s not possible for the action shots you were doing.

Russell

[llpoolej]

She came home from next door wearing this. I have no backdrops, no studio lighting, or anything of the sort. So, I put the Gary Fong diffuser on the flash and did my best. Things look much better also when I use the tripod, which I didn\'t. How could I improve these snapshotty shots? These would be adorable against a white backdrop. Fishtank was better than anything esle I could find to stick her in front of. Oh how I wish we were millionaires! ;)


I promise I will stop posting to this thread :D I think I have the CS2 too much green worked out. That is if I have Adobe displaying correctly!

http://llpoolej.smugmug.com/photos/37769301-M.jpg



http://llpoolej.smugmug.com/photos/37769323-M.jpg

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LLpoolej - Cute kid. You can post all you want to the thread.
T

[lkeeney]

Here are a couple of shots from today\'s Duble Down Challenge of professional BMX riders.
http://fourthirdsphoto.com/components/com_simpleboard/uploaded/images/BMX2.jpg http://fourthirdsphoto.com/components/com_simpleboard/uploaded/images/BMX.jpg

Post edited by: lkeeney, at: 2005/09/27 22:31

[lkeeney]

pixelmaniaman wrote:
Just to have a good laugh, my two sons many years ago did Judo, I went along with my 35mm slr and did all the pics, layed on the floor, stood on tables did the whole nine yards, when I arrived home guess what ~ no film in camera... 1st and only time that happened...:(<br><br>Post edited by: pixelmaniaman, at: 2005/09/27 13:25

That is a good one. If it can be messed up I can do it.

Lawrence

[lkeeney]

russ.will wrote:
i agree with LL. It\'s the proverbial black cat in a coal bunker situation. It\'s a bit small to see, but the metering seems to have struck the only balance it could with the dynamic range imposed by your subject. A slower shutter speed utilizing the slow sync would help as the flash would be reduced to a fill in role, but that\'s not possible for the action shots you were doing.

Russell

Russell,

A higher flash sync would be a nice feature for the next Ex camera.

Lawrence

[pixelmaniaman]

Nice action shots, maybe a touch more fill in.

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Lawrence,
In FP mode you can go higher SS. I don\'t remember how fast, but I think its like 1/2000.
How close were you to the action at this event?
T

[lkeeney]

tspore wrote:
Lawrence,
In FP mode you can go higher SS. I don\'t remember how fast, but I think its like 1/2000.
How close were you to the action at this event?
T

Tony,

For this event I was very close; about 5-10 feet for most of the shots.
I shot about 150 images, and most of them are keepers.

I did notice something a little strange with the camera though. As we were talking about the other day, the camera keeps turning off at the wring times. Well, today, three times the camera turned off just after I took a photo, after not taking a photo for some time.. I don\'t know if this was just coincidence and the camera may have turned it self off at that instance, or what. However, it did seem strange. I am going to watch for this happening on my next shoot.

I think I tried the FP mode when I first purchased my E1. If I remember correctly, the flash intensity decreases dramatically with increased speed. I guess I figured that I could not easily figure out which shots it would work for and which shots it would not. I kind of gave up on it.

Maybe I should spend a little more time looking into this feature.

Lawrence

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It may be time to send in the E-1 for a good cleaning, and check up. I do mine every 6 months to 1 year... If you need to borrow my E-1 body for a couple of weeks you can.

T

[lkeeney]

tspore wrote:
It may be time to send in the E-1 for a good cleaning, and check up. I do mine every 6 months to 1 year... If you need to borrow my E-1 body for a couple of weeks you can.

T

Tony,

Thanks for the very generous offer.

I think I am going to buy a couple of new batteries for the camera. Mine are a little old and may be getting flaky. Then I am going out and shoot some flowers or something. Give the camera a good workout. If I still have problems I may send it in for a check-up. Right now, I have all next month with no planned shoots. This would be a good time to get this done.

Lawrence

[Den]

Had another go at photographing the wonderful local singer-songwriter, Emma Rugg <www.emmarugg.com> last night. Last time, I made the mistake of only taking my 40-150mm and, because it\'s a very gloomy venue, spot-meter for her face, and shoot that.

This time, though, I spot-metered and then, against all my instincts - underexposed. Shot the evening at 1/10-1/20s at f2.8-3.5 at 400ASA. Result was that, though I had to adjust light levels a fraction in Photoshop, I had highlight detail and, more importantly, didn\'t need to use my digital noise remover. What I did do, though, was create an identical layer, apply gaussian blur of 1.0, and then reduce the opacity of that layer to 50%. Seems to be a good compromise between detail and noise as the detail, when photographing in the dark, looks like arranged noise...



http://fourthirdsphoto.com/components/com_simpleboard/uploaded/images/ce42d274cbaa7c5db8b66cf376ae51fd.jpg

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Den, That is a nice conversion to B+W. I imagine it will have a lot of noise in the full shot. But at this size it looks like it is sharp enough. You should try to print it, It looks great.
T

[Den]

Full crop...fingers crossed! http://fourthirdsphoto.com/components/com_simpleboard/uploaded/images/P9271324_1.JPG

Post edited by: Den, at: 2005/09/29 02:59

[lkeeney]

Here is a shot from my photo shoot of the \"Double Down Challenge\", Professional BMX race on Tuesday, Sept 27th. http://fourthirdsphoto.com/components/com_simpleboard/uploaded/images/RidingHigh.jpg

Post edited by: lkeeney, at: 2005/09/29 12:18

[llpoolej]

The colors on this BMX bike are awesome. I love the perspective you caught too. I can even see his eyes, Great job Lawrence!

[NrthrnHrse]

Can I ask what lens you are using to shoot your BMX? My son is in BMX and I shoot with my Sigma 50-200 lens.

[llpoolej]

Alright, I lied, here are a few more that I shot the other day. I took over 300 photos of my friend\'s dogs. Well, the whippet lives with me and is mine except for legally ;)

Camoflauged whippet:
http://llpoolej.smugmug.com/photos/37932413-L.jpg

Great dane puppy
http://llpoolej.smugmug.com/photos/37932126-L.jpg

Poor Mom
http://llpoolej.smugmug.com/photos/37927959-L.jpg

[lkeeney]

NrthrnHrse wrote:
Can I ask what lens you are using to shoot your BMX? My son is in BMX and I shoot with my Sigma 50-200 lens.

NrthrnHrse,

I use the 14-50mm lens almost exclusively for BMX, as I like to get close to the action. I have used my 50-200mm lens, and have gotten some very nice images, but I think the 14-54mm lens works better for this application.

Lawrence

[lkeeney]

For NrthrnHrse,

Here is one more from the same race.

Lawrence http://fourthirdsphoto.com/components/com_simpleboard/uploaded/images/curvet.jpg

[NrthrnHrse]

Thanks Lawrence, that is one of the the next lens I\'m going to acquire for my little collection of lens for my Evolt. I find my 200 to be a bit slow sometimes and the 14-54 seems like it would work much better for the fast action.

[BL3]

Trying this posting thing again. Possibly the bazillionth time I have photographed this poor flower, this time pulled out all the stops. Macro rig with DZ50 f2, Fl-50, RRS bracket, tripod, ballhead--the works. OK, here goes:

http://bl3.smugmug.com/photos/37159609-L.jpg

Oh yeah, used an E-1 of course. Need help ID\'ing this flower, which we ignorant locals call Mexican Magnolias. Dern things seem to live forever up here.

[Den]

The BBC building here in Hull held a coffee morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Research this morning, with raffles, cake, and coffee... Depicted is one half of country-blues duo, King-Rollo.co.uk (not sure which half). He\'s a good musician - which is why this not technically competent picture is all the more fun for me: he looks so goofy, standing in front of a projected weather map...

http://fourthirdsphoto.com/components/com_simpleboard/uploaded/images/P9301826_1.jpg

[gunnerx]

On the way home from work today, my wife and I dropped by the supermarket to do some grocery shopping. When we got out, the sky was on fire. Luckily I brought my E300 to work today and was able to take this picture in the parking lot. No pp has been done to it.

http://www.gunnerx.net/pics/cam/P9300537.jpg (http://www.gunnerx.net/pics/cam/P9300537.jpg)

[admin_old]

BL3- FA Few comments. I like the flower a lot. I t had good depth of field, nice detail in the pedals, etc. I think that pictures you have to work for are the best.

Den - Some times photos are worth more than Artistic perfection This is one of them. It is a fond memory of a goofy looking guy to me, but to you, he is a great musician.

Gunnerx - Looks similar to my skies tonight, in So-Cal with all the fires?

Thanks guys for posting pic\'s.

T

[lkeeney]

Stained Glass

Lawrence http://fourthirdsphoto.com/components/com_simpleboard/uploaded/images/Stainedglass.jpg

[admin_old]

Stain glass is always funn to shoot. I like how you brought in some of the sactuary. The only thing I would help for is a more square on shot....
Your church?
T

[lkeeney]

tspore wrote:
Stain glass is always funn to shoot. I like how you brought in some of the sactuary. The only thing I would help for is a more square on shot....
Your church?
T

Tony,

Yes, this is our church in Boulder City. We had the baptism of our newest grandson yesterday so I took my camera.

It is interesting that you say you would like a more square on shot as I deliberately took it at an angle thinking it would make for a more interesting shot.

Larry

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That\'s just a preference. T