Thread: ***DSLR Thread***

my friend dragged me to the roof of our work to see the thing. if i knew about it i would've brought a longer lens than 28mm (equiv).

anyway haven't been out shooting because of the damn heat! i wanted to do a project called "women's summer office attire" but it was too damn hot for me to even be out there. my gf wouldn'tve appreciated that project anyway, especially in her current impregnated state.

I've been busy scanning old 35mm slides. I came across some fairly decent stuff that I shot during a two-week backpacking trip I took in the Sierras while I was in the Scouts back in 1987. I shot this with my old Nikon F1, and if I recall correctly a 28mm f/2.8 lens. I REALLY miss that camera...it was stolen from my pickup truck while I was in junior college.

Check it:








Yeah...these were scanned as raw files and processed in LR4. They'd be merde without that little trick.

sweet shots! what software are you using for scanning? i've been using silverfast cause it came with my plustek scanner, but i've been reading that a lot of people use vuescan.

This is a borrowed Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 slide scanner. I've had it for like six weeks, but couldn't get it running because Nikon no longer supports updates to Nikonscan software, so it wouldn't work with either my 64-bit Windows 7 Pro PC or my new iMac (which is also 64 bit).

I'm using VueScan's software. It works really great, especially the automatic dust-spot cleanup feature. The downside is that VueScan doesn't support the batch-feeder, so I have to sit here in my spare time and feed it one slide at a time.

Great shots FBJ! I didn't make it past cub scouts, but I did do summer camps in the Sierra and took some nice B&W photos on backpacking adventures. Who knows where those negatives went tho. At least you kept track of yours. I would love to see what I could bring out of some of my old shots with modern image processing.

Like you I'm still nostalgic over my first Nikon. It was the first camera I bought myself and fortunately I still have it. It's an FE2. I was taking a photojournalism class in college and the instructor (who was a working photog for a major daily paper) recommended that I not get the traditional 50mm lens with it. He told me to start with a 28mm 2.8. Then get a 100mm 2.8. He said learn to use those two lenses first and my pictures will be a lot more interesting... and it was true. Those were the days. If you tried to shoot sports in a gym or at night, you were pushing Tri-X to 1600 and beyond with custom chemical baths and crossing your fingers that you got something good. Plus we were bulk loading film so we could get more than 36 frames on a roll. Nowadays these kids have just got it too easy. Shoot a thousand pictures on one card. If the light is bad, just switch your ISO to 3200. No crossing fingers, just take the shot and look at the screen and see if you got the shot. And if that's not enough, you can always fix everything in Photoshop. Now I feel old.

BTW, FBJ, as a pilot, how would you like to fly that 747 with the space shuttle on it's back? That must be something.

Man I'm horrible at post-production. Are most of you self taught on PhotoShop and LightRoom?

I never really alter my pics in PS or LR. I've experimented a bit, but my opinion is if you alter the pic much it goes from photography to graphic design. Plus I also think if you need to touch it up in PS, then you ain't got it. That said, there are cool things you can do aside from just simple cropping and adjusting. Maybe someday I'll figure out how to do those things.

Just came back from a trip to Ireland.

429 by The Black Cloud, on Flickr

Originally Posted by UnholyGoalie

I never really alter my pics in PS or LR. I've experimented a bit, but my opinion is if you alter the pic much it goes from photography to graphic design. Plus I also think if you need to touch it up in PS, then you ain't got it. That said, there are cool things you can do aside from just simple cropping and adjusting. Maybe someday I'll figure out how to do those things.

Just came back from a trip to Ireland.

429 by The Black Cloud, on Flickr

With either of those programs you could get all the intricate detail of those stone objects without having to blow the blue sky out. If you don't want to "cheat" a strong flash and a polarizer can do the same thing in camera. This might even make a good multi-exposure HDR.