Picture taken at the beach

[gbjune]

The Oregon coast might not have nice water, but sometimes it's fun to just bring a camera and walk around...

http://www.wsu.edu/~geir/pictures/small_1.jpg

Although, thanks to Canon's brilliant engineering, they put Auto for ISO since that was what the camera was set to. I'd be a bit happier if they set the EXIF information to whatever the picture actually ended up being taken at...

I had to go through and modify the sky, since noise in the blue was horrible. Not sure why...

Geir

[mpkirby]

This is pretty cool. Its got the "what's on the other side of the sand-dune" motif.

I wonder what it would look like in black & white? I think if you layed a piece of drift-wood across the path and printed it in B&W, you would have a famous photograph. (can't remember the photographer though....old age).

Try shooting it in Raw, instead of auto. The noise you were seeing might be JPEG artifacts. I use RAW exclusively now, and have pretty good deep blue skys. A little bit of noise, but you have to go hunting for it.

Mike

[deeps]

Geir,
I like the composition. May be if this was shot at dawn or dusk, with the reeds a golden hue,the impact would be even greater. Just a thought.

Mike,
Here's one I shot a while ago...

http://randomtrips.com/photos/index.html?id=3

Think I have a famous photo? :-)

[gbjune]

mpkirby wrote:
Try shooting it in Raw, instead of auto. The noise you were seeing might be JPEG artifacts. I use RAW exclusively now, and have pretty good deep blue skys. A little bit of noise, but you have to go hunting for it.
Mike

I did use RAW, that's part of the problem...

Even with RAW mode, the blue sky was speckled with red noise. It was really bad...

Then again, when watching on a 1280x1024/19" monitor, the picture is blown up substantially compared to a 6x4 or anything like that...

I'll try again this weekend, this time make sure it is ISO 50 and do some bracketing. See if that helps.

:)

converted to black and white (and did nothing to reduce noise)

http://www.wsu.edu/~geir/pictures/small2.jpg

Geir

[Paul V]

I don't see any noise in this B&W photo...

[gbjune]

Paul V wrote:
I don't see any noise in this B&W photo...

The noise seems to dissappear as part of the B&W conversion....

which I guess is good... Blue and red look similar in grey anyway, so this is to be expected...

Geir

[John Smith]

Great color management here. Congratulations.

[mpkirby]

> Mike,
> Here's one I shot a while ago...
>
> http://www.geocities.com/pradeepselvakumar/photos.html?id=3
>
> Think I have a famous photo? :-)


That's it!! That's the "look" I was thinking of.

A little sadness, end-of-summer kind of day. Everyone's gone but you. You're only left with memories.

The B&W looks good too. Did you just take the standard conversion? Or did you futz around with it. I like the contrast better than the B&W version above. The composition is good too. (notice, the destination is in the upper-left, not dead center...) Its kind of like you'r walking while looking at the ground. (sort of like most of us walk :-)

Mike