d60 action examples---freefall

[craigamrine]

Hey folks.

Here's some samples of shots with the D60, shot in shutter priority,1/500th, high-quality jpeg, Canon 20-35 AF.

http://homepage.mac.com/craigamrine/PhotoAlbum4.html

[DoctorMoth]

Very nice pics but one question, why would you use a D-60 to do jpegs and not tiff files? Seems like overkill, kinda like taking the Concorde from NY to Boston. Or am I missing something?

[craigamrine]

Good question.

Still playing with the RAW format. The conversion software written for the Mac has a LOT to be desired. I'm was also limited on time and memory capacity during the day of shooting. Ideally, it would have have been nice to have a TIFF mode in the camera, rather than shoot in RAW and convert.
At the lowest level of compression, the JPEG pics look pretty decent....at 13x19 at 240 dpi, the prints are very sellable.

I will be likely shooting a lot more in RAW in the near future, just gotta committ the time to learn the damn software for the conversion.

cheers,
-craig amrine

[pigasus]

Craig,

Uh, where were you and what were you doing when you took these pictures? Since you were using a 20-35 lens you must have been very close to the action. Were you in freefall as well? I'm gobsmacked in any event. Great shots!

Sally

[Alan H]

-craig amrine [wrote]
I will be likely shooting a lot more in RAW in the near future, just gotta committ the time to learn the damn software for the conversion.

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Craig,

You're probably already doing this when downloading a raw image. (but just in case you are not...) Open Photoshop, turn on connected D60, when the downloading window pops up click on "CANCEL". Now go to Photoshop window and drag down on file menu to import and choose twain driver for D60 camera. Then click on camera connection in the driver and the thumbnails will pop up. All you need to do is select an image and click transfer and it will convert the RAW image to a 36Mb file into Photoshop. (make sure your preferences are set up the way you want them) That's the easy way to convert raw files.

The other way is download the .CRW files and open them with the Raw Comvertor program, this allows you to change exposure density, white balance, sharpness, etc. before you "develop" the raw .crw file. It is slow no matter how much ram you allocate to it. It's a much cleaner file than the jpegs, you're right about raw files eating up lots of room on a compact flash card. By the way, your photos are very cool, especially #493. Thanks for posting them.

Hope this is helpful.

Alan

[craigamrine]

Thanks for the tips on Raw conversion.



Yeah, I was falling with these folks. I mount the camera on a helmet designed for such things and use a cable remote to take pics.....standard procedure for this type of job.

-craig amrine