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...



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)



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/pradeepselv...otos.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