Not my best, but a nice sunset in the making...

John MacdonaldJohn Macdonald Registered Users Posts: 33 Big grins
edited January 9, 2004 in The Dgrin Challenges
This was a little snapshot just before we headed home the other day.

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  • kbasakbasa Registered Users Posts: 64 Big grins
    edited January 9, 2004
    What happened to the pic, John?
    What's this button do?
  • MarcMarc Registered Users Posts: 37 Big grins
    edited January 9, 2004
    kbasa wrote:
    What happened to the pic, John?
    John, try the IMG tags you're so familiar with... it oughta help!

    Marc
  • John MacdonaldJohn Macdonald Registered Users Posts: 33 Big grins
    edited January 9, 2004
    oops
    let's try that again...
  • BaldyBaldy Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 2,853 moderator
    edited January 9, 2004
    Whoa! So niiiiccceee....
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  • John MacdonaldJohn Macdonald Registered Users Posts: 33 Big grins
    edited January 9, 2004
    photoshop growing pains...
    Irfanview was so easy to deal with.
    PS is taking a bit more of a bite to get into.
    I had to resize and change stuff and learn on the fly how to deal with it all.

    Along with the 1D I got photoshop.
    I have seven hundred or so images from Tahiti to sort through and have quite a learning curve to climb on this one.

    The orig image looked much more crisp, seems I had to lower the quality a bit to get it on the screen here.

    Or something like that...
    kbasa wrote:
    What happened to the pic, John?
  • John MacdonaldJohn Macdonald Registered Users Posts: 33 Big grins
    edited January 9, 2004
    Yes nice indeed...
    The sky was just exploding there.
    I took about seven or so images as the sun was setting, but this one had the motion I wanted to capture.
    And the light was my favorite of all of them (and it was the first of them too).
    As I recall, I underexposed this one 1-1/3 stop.

    Sitting there, without my sunglasses on, the sky looked nice, but not like this.
    As I did an eyeglass switch, I could see with my eyes what a little underexposure would do for things in the camera.
    Raised the 1D to my eye and thumbed the exposure comp wheel as I focused on the huts (or was it a tree...) and locked it there. I think I metered on one of the darker clouds then hit the shutter button.

    Shot this one with the 28-70L

    Baldy wrote:
    Whoa! So niiiiccceee....
  • kbasakbasa Registered Users Posts: 64 Big grins
    edited January 9, 2004
    You know that Irfanview has a nice batch conversion feature for resizing entire directories of photos at one pass? I used to use it in a production environment to resize 11 x 17 .tif images to 8.5 x 11.
    What's this button do?
  • John MacdonaldJohn Macdonald Registered Users Posts: 33 Big grins
    edited January 9, 2004
    Nope-
    I didn't know that at all!
    I'm thinking of just sticking with irfanview for the web stuff and learning PS on the side.
    What a handful!

    So thanks for the tip.
    I assume I just go to the irfanview site and browse thorugh the plugins?


    kbasa wrote:
    You know that Irfanview has a nice batch conversion feature for resizing entire directories of photos at one pass? I used to use it in a production environment to resize 11 x 17 .tif images to 8.5 x 11.
  • kbasakbasa Registered Users Posts: 64 Big grins
    edited January 9, 2004
    John Macdonald wrote:
    I didn't know that at all!
    I'm thinking of just sticking with irfanview for the web stuff and learning PS on the side.
    What a handful!

    So thanks for the tip.
    I assume I just go to the irfanview site and browse thorugh the plugins?
    No it's actually part of the base functionality. Go to File>Batch Conversion/rename. It'll convert files from one format to another as well as resize them. It's not real intuitive, so poke around a little with a back up copy before you start letting it rip on a hundred photos at a time.

    One of the cool things is that it generates a log at the end and will tell you if any of the pics didn't get dealt with.
    What's this button do?
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 9, 2004
    really, really nice. i want to be there!

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    John Macdonald wrote:
    let's try that again...
    Andy

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