On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Walter Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, David! Glad you liked the barn shots. It's a distinctive old > hulk, to be sure. > > I actually considered using the RAW + JPG setting, but I only had a 2 Gig > card in the camera at the time, and figured most of the shots were just > going to be throw-aways. So, I figured I'd just take as many as I could, > since I wasn't too concerned with composition. I was essentially just > trying to capture my drunkard acquaintances looking goofy.
PDML and beer. Its a natural pairing. Dave > > Many thanks for the kind words. > > -- Walt > > On 2/8/2011 9:24 AM, David J Brooks wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Walter Gilbert<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for the tip, Bruce. It is much appreciated. >>> >>> I'd forgotten that I had changed my settings over to JPEG while I was >>> taking >>> snapshots during the Super Bowl gathering I went to last night. >> >> I tend to get around that by shooting in Raw and Jpg mode. I use the >> Jpg's to upload via jalbum and then adjust the Raws for the photos i >> want. >> >> Dave >> >> BTW nice Geso, i enjoyed the old barn shots. >> >> Dave >> >>> -- Walt >>> >>> On 2/7/2011 6:58 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >>>> >>>> Nice ones, Walt. I especially like barn-front (5426125455) and that >>>> curious dog (5426727734). >>>> >>>> Tech issue: in the doggy shot I'm seeing artifacts of the sort caused by >>>> curves adjustments on 8-bit images; stuff like stair-step transitions in >>>> all-white scenes where the pixels are up in the 240-254 range. Look at >>>> the >>>> snow behind the dog toward the top of the image. >>>> >>>> And I wonder if your exposure was maybe a bit too hot in the barn shot. >>>> Did you take a look at the histogram in PS when you were editing that >>>> one? >>>> It's got a look I see in my own images when the whites have clipped (too >>>> close to 255) and then vignetting is applied. You tend to get a kind of >>>> dirty grey look in those areas. >>>> >>>> Shooting stuff in snow is really tricky -- quite the balancing act. This >>>> is one area where shooting raw *really* pays off, with more dynamic >>>> range >>>> and headroom. >>>> >>>> -bmw >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
