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8th of August 2005 (Mon), 06:04
I’m a proud new owner of a Canon G6. This is my first camera beyond a very simple point and shoot. These were all hand held shots generally taken with shutter priority set to a minimum shutter of 1/50 and ISO at a maximum of 200. I’m not personally a big fan of the ISO 400 setting on the G6. I realize some of these shots are quite dark – my apologies. On my laptop monitor they all appear to be fairly viewable, but I realized when viewing on my CRT that some are far too dark. At any rate, these were fairly experimental for me in regard to low light conditions with my G6.

I’m fond of glass. It just so happens that Oklahoma City Museum of Art has the largest collection of Dale Chihuly glass in the world:

http://www.okcmoa.com/exhibits_chihulycollection.htm

http://www.chihuly.com/chihuly.html

Honestly, I had no idea who that was before I went to the exhibition. I had no clue it was this extensive. I only gave myself a little more than 3 hours before closing to view it and since I was allowed to take pictures that was not really long enough! I barely had time to rush through the other exhibits. I mistakenly thought that it was going to be second rate, but I have to concede that it was in fact really nice. I recommend seeing it if you ever happen to come through OKC.

These are not particularly crafty compositions, but some turned out pretty well considering the lighting conditions and the challenge to find the compromise of camera settings for a sharply focused and properly lit image. The lighting makes a huge difference in the appearance of the glass. I’ve included more than one version of a couple for comparison of setting combination effects.

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These were unfortunately all shot without shutter priority and turned out soft as a result:

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Some of these suffered more than others from being hand held shots – it might have been nice to have had a monopod or something to get really good slow-shutter shots – I tried to stick with a minimum of 1/50 shutter speed (read somewhere that like 1/60-1/80 was a minimum for hand held).

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Andy_T
8th of August 2005 (Mon), 06:17
WOW ... you took a lot of work for this thread :D

Very nice lamps and nice images of them.

Two thoughts

... why not make reduced versions (e.g. 1024x768 ), as most people will view them at this resolution, it'll be faster and use less online space.

... do a forum search for Noiseware community edition ... a free noise reduction program that might make the images even better.

Best regards,
Andy

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8th of August 2005 (Mon), 07:54
Thanks and thank you for the suggestions. As I mentioned I posted these in other forums in the format that I presented here – actually, it taking such an effort to put them together was the main reason for me seeking a vBulletin photography forum to post in. I will keep your suggestions in mind in the future as guideline for posting here. I suppose my school of thought was that if anyone is really interested in the subject and wants to see them – why not provide the highest resolution and quality of image. If they don’t really want to see them – why make a tiny little picture out of these high quality originals. In the end, if anyone wants to view them – they can download the high res versions and others can skip on through to other photos that may be of more interest to them. I’m new to this and posting of the images and I can see the predominant school of thought is more along the lines of your suggestion.

Barb42
8th of August 2005 (Mon), 11:24
I love his work with glass. Thaks for sharing....and some nice shots. Good compositions.