Work out for new D90.

[Guest Yachtsman1]

We didn't pick the best subject in the world for the first serious try out of the D90, very dim lighting, no flash allowed & half the area roped off, no access. So the pictures are not the best. I have had to make extensive use of D lighting, didn't want to up the ISO from 200.

The musical accompanyment is firstly Palestrino's Nunc Dimittis, then just for Igor, Russian Monks chanting.

Mechanics-

Run time 6 minutes, size 15MB, Aspect ratio 5-4, 42 slides, size fixed.

Camera Nikon D90, Lens Nikon 18-105, all inside shots tripod used. Audacity for sound track, PTE for show, NX2 software.

http://www.mediafire.com/?uaoviokywrlvflf

Yachtsman1.

[Ken Cox]

Eric

no excuses needed re lighting -- you just give the nit pickers an opening

iso, f stop shutter etc from exif?

no grain apparent

ken

[Guest Yachtsman1]

Thanks Ken.

Regards Eric

Yachtsman1

[xahu34]

... you just give the nit pickers an opening ...

I do not want to make a comment on Eric's show. As we can see, people who make critical remarks, a priori, are regarded as nit pickers. As a consequence, the typical show that is published in this form will remain mediocre, as it is today. So what!

Regards,

Xaver

[fh1805]

...you just give the nit pickers an opening

Ken,

If comments are going to be constructive (i.e. making suggestions as to how a sequence might be improved) the person making the comment has, perforce, to concentrate on the things that seem wrong or weak. It is an inevitable fact of life that, in the world of camera clubs and photo societies, the judge has to be a "nit picker". The skill comes in doing it so that the individual receiving the judge's remark sees it for what it really is - a pointer towards improvement of their work.

Peter

[Guest Yachtsman1]

When I posted this show, I didn't intend it to become a debate on critisism. My preamble pointed out the defects that I thought should be taken into consideration when commenting. Yesterday I watched part of the amazing vimeo "Basket" presentation which left me speechless. On thinking about it afterwards I wondered why the presenter had gone to so much trouble constructing the show, when a video camera could have produced the same if not better results. However, I decided not to comment.

It is a fact though that some of the most vitriolic comments come from sources that rarely if ever post their own work. I know I can do better & have done, however, with the material I had, I didn't believe it was worth going to a lot of trouble with it. Feel free to comment it may urge me to higher plains.

Yachtsman1.

[davegee]

Purely in the spirit of adding to knowledge and in no way criticising:

There is an piece in this month's NIKON OWNER by Simon Stafford where he re-inforces the Nikon View that D Lighting is mainly for JPEG and TIFF files.

Applying D-Lighting techniques to RAW files is best done in NX2 where the degree of control is far better. D Lighting on RAW images in camera applies an exposure compensation which is not properly reversible in NX2.

I have no way of knowing which was the case here.

DG

[Ken Cox]

Eric

no excuses needed re lighting -- you just give the nit pickers an opening

iso, f stop shutter etc from exif?

no grain apparent

ken

ERIC

you never answered this part of my note

iso, f stop shutter etc from exif?

these facts will show the capabilities of your new piece under low light conditions

tia

ken

[Guest Yachtsman1]

Purely in the spirit of adding to knowledge and in no way criticising:

There is an piece in this month's NIKON OWNER by Simon Stafford where he re-inforces the Nikon View that D Lighting is mainly for JPEG and TIFF files.

Applying D-Lighting techniques to RAW files is best done in NX2 where the degree of control is far better. D Lighting on RAW images in camera applies an exposure compensation which is not properly reversible in NX2.

I have no way of knowing which was the case here.

DG

The latter, to JPEGs

[Guest Yachtsman1]

ERIC

you never answered this part of my note

iso, f stop shutter etc from exif?

these facts will show the capabilities of your new piece under low light conditions

tia

ken

Hi Ken

Missed that. I assume you know how to look at Exif data on Flickr? if you use this link it will take you to our Photostream, some of our pictures are on there, beware the first 6 are from Margaret's D40, the second 5 are mine.

Regards Eric

Yachtsman1.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eric_shepherd/

[Guest Yachtsman1]

In case anyone else would like to use Flickr to check their Exif data, click the flickr link on the post above, open the picture you want to check, click the actions button scroll down to exif data.

Yachtsman1

[Conflow]

Hi Eric,

I have never commented on anyone's Slideshow on this Forum but in your case I will make an exception because

I know the venue very well and the lighting constraints deliberately designed into the building by the most

renowned Architects Edwin Lutyens of London (Formed:1885) are world renowned for the effects they create.

Its a wonderful little Slideshow when one appreciates the constraints you were working under and you kept it

simple and dignified with your portrail of the 'Stations of the Cross' (The Crucifixion of Christ) which was in

remberance of the destruction of Liverpool in the 2nd World War ~ this probably went over most peoples' heads.

Well done indeed...

Brian.(Conflow)

[Guest Yachtsman1]

Thanks Brian, my cup runneth over, so to speak.

Regards Eric

Yachtsman1.

BTW we aim to do the same at the Anglican Cathedral next week.