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Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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Cute picture tori.
I like the ants too. |
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careful with axes
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Location: Hillsborough, CA
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Guess I'll join the fray...
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careful with axes
Join Date: May 2004
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I think we should all dig up our oldest digital cameras and shoot with them just for the sake of amusement. I found my D-320L (from 1998) in a storage box the other day...just need to find the SmartMedia cards...
Anybody own a QuickTake? |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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We had an old one sitting in a cabinet at my other job. It was dark grey, bulky, etc. Don't remember the actual model (there weren't that many, right?).
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careful with axes
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Hillsborough, CA
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There's at least three. The two Kodak made ones which are kinda square and flat...you hold them like binoculars. There's also a Fuji rebranded one that looks more conventional. There's probably no way to download photos on the cams to OS X though.
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Thanks.
Does the color look alright in that shot? I ask because in the iLife thread, I posted a comparison of Aperture's compression (this shot) and iWeb's compression and several people commented on the "orange" (well, to use Is it 1981?'s term: fake tan) color of the Aperture export. |
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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Well, it's a little soft but the color is off too. (Now mind you, I haven't seen your little one personally.) It seems that the white point is being set by the bright spots on the head and shoulder causing the rest to shift a little. I wouldn't say the color cast is horrible, it's not a bad overall effect IMO. But to answer the question, yes there's a color cast.
Louis L'Amour, βTo make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.β Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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Not sayin', just sayin'
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Have I not posted here? I could have sworn... Ok, well anyway, here goes:
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As far as I know, Aperture doesn't add a strong color cast to its photos. If you see a color discrepancy, it's probably the result of viewing the photo in an app that recognizes the embedded color profile, and then seeing it in a browser like Firefox which doesn't... To me, it looks like the newborn pic and the one you took after you got your new lens are more tinted than your latest photo. Film geeks will lament the lost art of having to get the perfect shot then and there, but subtle post-processing of digital photos is standard fare now. It's why GSpotter's photos look so good. He has a good eye for setting just the right black/white levels, contrast, saturation and sharpening...the end result is a photo that is punchier than real life, but still believable. EDIT: If you check back to page 6, there is a sub-thread revolving around a photo Ryan took of some tallgrass and adjustments which could be made. In this case I actually preferred Ryan's original because I think it more actually depicted to darkening of a dusk sky. Making the sky bluer had the detrimental effect of making the grass less golden while also giving the sky an overpowering presence. The end effect has me shifting attention back and forth between the grass and sky, whereas in the original I was more naturally viewing the photograph as a whole. Last edited by Eugene : 2007-08-22 at 16:31. |
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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Eugene, BR, I like your shots guys. I'm not a fan of seagulls personally, but it is a nice shot nonetheless. I love the waterfall and the rocks, it reminds me of a hiking trip I went on a couple of years ago.
Louis L'Amour, βTo make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.β Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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It's a seabird of some sort, but I don't think it's actually in the gull family. I don't like them either, but aside from pigeons, they dominate the skys here... Occasionally I see some hawks and carrion birds, but they are far more elusive (weary of humans).
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careful with axes
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For the sake of comparison, this is what the original photo looked like:
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~ceugene/seabird-raw.png I scaled it down slightly, but everything else was left unprocessed. |
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I'm also still learning the program/adjustments and on that one I toyed with some of the other adjustment levels to get some more warmth. I'll see if I can do better after reading that sub-thread. The other issue is that I use Aperture on my iMac and my MBP and I'm reasonably certain they're not both calibrated properly much less to each other so it's really hard to tell what is "real". They're close to calibrated, but I'm sure they're not perfect. These LED MBPs are even harder to calibrate than usual. But we did print that photo and the output is very close to what I was expecting, so that's something. Thanks for the feedback, turtle and Eugene. |
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careful with axes
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Found the culprit:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/CanonEOS350D/page20.asp http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/CanonEOS30D/page22.asp http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/Cano...kII/page20.asp http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/EXT/EXTPICS.HTM Just create a custom WB setting in your camera for use indoors because even Canon's Incandescent preset is too conservative. You'd think WB would be pretty easy to calibrate. |
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9" monochrome
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tori - a custom WB setting will help and it shouldn't be too hard to work out the bracketing. If you're having trouble let us know and I'll borrow my friend's 350D and post some instructions. (I do find it ironic/quaint in this day and age of reverting to this film-based technique when we have the power to correct our shots in post-processing.) |
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That would be the kit 18-200mm. The OEM software could have dealt with the vignetting (or Photoshop's heal tool), but the photo needed to be reframed anyway. There's also additional fall-off because I was at a sandy beach and stuck a UV filter on top to protect the front element.
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Charlotte, NC
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What's wrong with vignetting?
This was taken with the 18-135 "wide open" (5.6) at 135. Converted to b&w and increased the contrast to make the bird completely black. Works well, IMHO, though it's not your typical bird porn, of course Β°<>< - Parallel Sets: Open Source Categorical Data Visualization - Visualization and Visual Communication Blog eagereyes Last edited by ghoti : 2007-08-23 at 06:58. Reason: replaced image so it's also visible in China |
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ghoti - I believe you take good pics, but hosting on flickr means that I can't see what you have posted from here in China.
To be sure, I have nothing against vignetting when it is used as a desired effect. |
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geri to my friends
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Porn would be better. But still looks good to me.
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owner for sale by house
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Charlotte, NC
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Mac+, sorry, I had no idea. Actually I guess I heard about that but wasn't making the connection. I've put the picture on my own host, so now I hope it'll be visible. Don't know if I can still edit the ants picture message, but I'll try that too.
geriatric, thanks! |
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owner for sale by house
Join Date: Apr 2005
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I also just realized that this is a color photography sharing thread, so sorry for being off-topic. We also need a Kodachrome sharing thread for Dorian Gray, perhaps there is a way to tape a slide to a message.
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9" monochrome
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ghoti - cheers. Nice shot.
Something odd just happened though. For the first time I was able to see abb's photos on the previous page. I also went to GSpotter's and your flickr accounts and I can see the thumbnails, but the main image loads for half and then blanks out. Odd. |
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Grayscale is the new colorful!
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Our recent family addition, a couple of days ago, at 3 months
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I was knighted
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A view of the Univ of Texas Tower:
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