D200 at Boston's Saint Patrick's Day Parade

flyingdutchie

Here are some pictures from the Parade at Saint Patrick's day in South Boston.
I used my D200 with a 70-200 f/2.8 VR lens, shot using NEF quality.

I set the tone to medium high contrast and the saturation to enhanced to get a somewhat more gritty and 'cold-day' look :=) (it was cloudy most of the day and it even snowed a little)

All picture are post-processed in Nikon Capture.

Wonder Woman


Sci Fi


Tin Man


Cold Day


Cheering


Horses


Our Sherrif Andrea J. Cabral



More Parade pics can be seen here:
http://www.streetsofboston.com/gallery/1293637

The results were mixed. At times i had a hard time obtaining sharp pictures. Even with or despite the VR on my lens...? Maybe some of the sharpeness issues were that i was sometimes too close to the subject (minimum focus distance).

I also discovered that with ISO200 and higher, the in-camera sharpeness setting of 'medium-high' and higher will worsen the noise quite a bit. It's MUCH better to set in-camera sharpening to none and apply USM later (in Photoshop/Nikon Capture).

Enjoy,
-- Anton.

Art Scott

Really nice set of photos. Like the ones on your site also...good work

marlof

Very nice shots of the parade. I especially liked the one of the red haired kid pointing you out to the other kid, while one kid is watching the parade, and the other kids are cold. It captures many moods on watching the parade in that kind of weather in one shot.

erich6

Well, all of these look pretty sharp. Also, I didn't think the on-camera setting would affect your NEF images. Either way, I also read in reviews that this camera has very good noise performance all the way up to ISO 1600. How much noise are you seeing?

Erich

Andy

Nice series, Anton