New Canon 10D Travel Photos

[Mark Goldstein]

Hi,


I've just finished adding the best images from a recent 5-day trip to Brussels and Bruges to the Travel section of my personal website:

http://www.markgoldstein.co.uk/gallery/travel


There are 18 new albums and 264 new photographs in total, all taken with the Canon 10D and these lenses - Canon 20-35mm f/3.5-4.5 USM and Tamron 75-300mm f/3.5-5.6.

[nsxpower]

Do you do any post processing on these? You really should.

You Bangkok photos are very soft considering they were resized to 640x480, a little USM would do wonders. Bangkok is a very vivid place, so boost saturation and lower the gamma to 0.9 or so --- to achive a NGMish look. Some photos lack depth, which could be fixed with a levels/curves adjustment. Your copyright mark is way too big for my liking.

I enjoyed you People series though.

Best.

[Mark Goldstein]

Thanks for the tips!

The most recent photos are the Brussels/Bruges ones, all taken with the 10D. In Photoshop, they were resized to 600x400, then sharpened with USM (usually 100-150% / 0.3 / 1. I also adjusted levels and contrast if necessary.

The older photos e.g. Bangkok are scanned images, taken with a film camera then scanned using a Nikon Coolscan IV. I agree that they would benefit from some more sharpening.

Thanks again :-)

[nsxpower]

I'm still facing the dilemma of whether I should go for 10D or pick up a nice slide scanner + flatbed scanner for negatives ... looks like the descision is clear :)

I've seen people replicating slide film look with the 10D, so I am really tempted. That plus FM Digital Velvia action and I should be a very happy camper.

I tend to oversharpen my photos (at least that how some people feel) so my opinion should be taken with a grain of salt.

Mark Goldstein wrote:
Thanks for the tips!

The most recent photos are the Brussels/Bruges ones, all taken with the 10D. In Photoshop, they were resized to 600x400, then sharpened with USM (usually 100-150% / 0.3 / 1. I also adjusted levels and contrast if necessary.

The older photos e.g. Bangkok are scanned images, taken with a film camera then scanned using a Nikon Coolscan IV. I agree that they would benefit from some more sharpening.

Thanks again :-)

[Mark Goldstein]

Hi,

I'd definitely go for the 10D, if only because scanning slides and negatives is such a time-consuming pain in the you-know-what!

The Nikon Coolscan IV, which sells for £500 in the UK, takes about 5 minutes per slide to scan at full resolution with Digital Ice enabled. I've just posted 240 photos taken with the 10D - imagine how long they would have taken to scan if they had been captured on film! I probably wouldn't have bothered, or just scanned the very best ones...

I did try sharpening one of the Bangkok jpegs and they could definitely benefit from more, so I'll put it on my list of things to do :-)

I haven't got Fred's Velvia action yet - I may look into it as I too am a slide user with a preference for saturated colours. Where have you "seen people replicating slide film look with the 10D"? Any URLs you can pass on?

[nsxpower]

"seen people replicating slide film look with the 10D" --- was a misleading statement on my part. I've seen a couple photos taken with a 10D that were manipulated to look a lot like slide film --- people have been trying to replicate that "look", some are more successful then others. I can't wait to try out Fred's Velvia action, but samples look good. I have been experimenting with trying to achive NGMish look myself, but so far with little success (I do have a day job:D) > http://www.pbase.com/alexmfin/inbox > what I have so far.

Personally, I think that the look of Velvia at ISO40 can not be replicated. Because digital is a different medium/film ... the same way that Provia is different from Velvia, which is completely different from color negative films. Thats completely fine with me because that just offers more versatility etc. Digital however has the edge, since I can get pretty damn close to the look of a particular film if I really want to. This is why I am plunking down 2000€ on a 10D. That and the fact that I can shoot more with instant feedback w/o having to wait for the results from the lab.

Scanning is a pain ... I am not sure why you scan at full resolution (4000dpi I presume) for the Web, but then quality matters so I can understand you --- downsampling is easier then upsampling.

[Mark Goldstein]

Hi,

I tend to scan at 4000dpi so I could make some prints, then resize and save as JPEG for the Web. Curiously, I have tried scanning at a much lower resolution, and there doesn't seem to be any noticeable time-saving!

I've kept my film camera and a supply of film, partly because it's an EOS 300 and I wouldn't get much for it 2nd-hand, but mostly because I still like the effects of different films. As far as I'm concerned digital just gives a different type of effect.

[nsxpower]

Mark Goldstein wrote:
I still like the effects of different films. As far as I'm concerned digital just gives a different type of effect.

Yep

[raztazor]

Mark

Your albums are great. I was wondering. Do you take your photos using the Canon10D RAW mode?

Also, is your website coded by hand or do you use a package like you do for your blogger site?

Thanks
Andrew

[Mark Goldstein]

Thanks Andrew!

I do take all my photos using the Canon 10D RAW format...

...but for my website I just use the JPEG file which the Canon 10D embeds in the RAW file. This is set to Small, which gives a file size of 1536 x 1024. I then resize it, tweak Levels and apply USM in Photoshop.

I use an application called Gallery:

http://gallery.menalto.com/

which I've altered to add my own navigation etc.

[Mark Goldstein]

Hi,

I've added several new albums to my website during the last week, including Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and London (!).

http://www.markgoldstein.co.uk/gallery/travel

[tenerife]

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Klaus

[Mark Goldstein]

My monthly bandwidth limit was exceeded over the weekend :-(

It should be back up and running now :-)