On 4/19/2010 11:07 AM, Joseph McAllister wrote:
Another rambling tome by the master. But with some fun at the end if you
want to skip ahead.
On Apr 19, 2010, at 01:17 , David Mann wrote:
If you've read this far, you deserve a reward...
I attended a Gerlach Nature Photography seminar Saturday thinking I'd
I see that it is people named Gerlach, not taught in the town of Gerlach
which, if it weren't for burning man, nobody would have ever heard of.
get some insights and inspiration for getting out into it this summer.
Don't bother. It turned out to be a photo 201 class on how ISO, aperture
and shutter speed are inter-related and can be used to control many
It's annoying how many classes end up being about these basics.
aspects of your images. Oh, and they've been to Yellowstone and Kenya.
And OH! Nikon and Canon are the cameras of choice, maybe Sony too.
But they bitched about the histogram display on the Canon not showing R
G B, and the edge on the right not being defined other than by you
brights climbing it.
I spent some time Saturday afternoon with a friend testing some of my
AIS mount glass on his D700. The RGB histograms were available, but
they were a few clicks deep. That may, however be because Beau didn't
normally use them and may not have known the incantation for calling
them up by default.
He was taking some shots of golden poppies with one of my lenses and I
asked him about underexposing a bit to keep from blowing out the red
channel, and he didn't know what I was talking about. Which is a bit
surprising because he does have a side business as a pro photographer (a
degree in film, but when he was not able to get work in video, he
started playing with still cameras and found he liked that).
We called up the histogram and I showed him the red channel being blown
out while there was still a lot of headroom on the other two.
D700 people: Does the D700 have the dynamic range and proper metering so
that even though the histogram shows the red being a bit blown out,
there is still enough headroom in the raw to not run into this problem?
If the D700 handles the metering of saturated colors gracefully, this
may explain why he gets by without checking the color histogram. He
just meters off the meter in the viewfinder.
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