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Very nice color tropical Would be better if the DOF is deeper, so the fish' mouth also sharp

I prefer wider angle lens for more perspective and give more contrast to highlight and shadow (rembrandt lighting)

Correcting White Balance From JPEG Image Tips I found so far, the easiest way to correct the white balance from a JPEG image is to use Photoshop Level Adjustment. Choose 'set gray point' (as pointed by the cursor) and then select any part from the image that supposed to be gray (have same value of RGB). You can select white or black also, just keep clicking until you get the color balance as you want

Very nice plug-in! Thanks!

Finally!!! Congrats Jason!!! We should proud to have our own local amp

FastStone is not a good RAW viewer. It is meant for fast browsing only. To see real quality of the RAW pics, no choice must use better software

Nice BW It seems you applied a little bit of soft focus effect. What sw/technique you used?

I wish so Have been eyeing on DSLR since 2 years ago, but still cannot afford one

Thanks av98m! The classic rule of thumb is still valid: the most important is the man behind the camera

The ant was about 3-4 cm from the lens, I think

Traveling, Friends wedding, Church events, etc. Quite easy to reach 30 rolls per year I like digital, because it means saving money for me But it is true that in term of quality, it is difficult to beat cheap film SLR loaded with Velvia or Kodakchrome. But I'm not a perfectionist anymore, so digital fits my purpose well

That's the right way to get wide dynamic range from a single image If your camera don't have RAW, then bracketing will be the way.

Taken with Ixus-i, this tiny digicam has an impressive macro capability. Resized 50% from the original size and then croped. So the original size of the ant in the original image is twice the size of this foto.

Wow N@Z, a very nice zoom lens A better way to get the shade and the bright HDB in balance is to shoot them in bracketing mode, -1 0 +1 (must use tripod) and then sandwich them in PS So you get all the detail of the bright and the shade. This technique is to extend the native dynamic range of the digicam CCD. But I agree with Jason, your green is good and natural, but not the 'poping out' green as the one in the postcard

Maybe if can get very cheap cheap

As what Ken said, the better the equipment, the better they deal with that sort of weaknesses. Anyway for 8R print any prosumer digicam normally gives decent result. I use to print 10R wide (10"x15") from my 4Mp G2 with 'good enough for me' result Agree for noise and dynamic range, but white balance tolerance is still narrower than film. My friend has 1Ds (damn heavy) and the WB is still not impressive.

Yup, you are right! Sorry for the confusion. CA is actually happen in film and digital because of the lens. That's why they have APO lens. But now pruple fringing in digital also called CA Purply fringing only hapen in digital You're right! The touch up / post processing is just the creativity option of the digital Nothing to do with the precious moment Considering the almost S$ 0.- operational cost with digital, people tends to take more fotos, hence capture more precious moment

Digital and Film are two different animals... they have good and bad on their own For example, for enlargement, if we use good software to interpolate the digital image, the 4Mp digital might show better result than the normal 35mm negative. There is no grain in digital But there are a lot of digital's weakness as well, name it moire, CA, diagonal jaggies, narrow dynamic range, narrow white balance tolerance, color shift on shadow, color noise/grain, etc. While film doesn't have all of that. The advantage of digital, more suitable for our modern multimedia workflow, grainless, and the most important thing for me is, we can touch it up to our taste So the art doesn't stop on the shutter button, like most of us who don't develop the film by ourself. So digital give more room for creativity to get what we want Instant result, near $ 0.- operational cost make people like to take more pictures, try more, and learn more. And one of the most important factor for me is, the storage and the convenience to browse hundreds or thousands fotos easily, which I cannot do with film. With digital, I took in average about 4000 pictures a year for the last 5 years. When using film only about 25% of it. So, yes it is fun using digital . Sometime it is not the quality that matter, it is the moment that is precious

White Balance Knowledge & Tips Not much discussed when we were (are) using film, but now become very important in digital photography. With film it is simply too troublesome to have a few films for every light/color temperature. And film also has a very wide 'white balance tolerance' compare to digital. Not like film, in digital, to get right color, it is very critical to adjust the white balance to the correct color temperature. So, what is white balance. Some good expalanations: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase...ion/source.html http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/colortemperature/ So white is not always looks white to our eyes, it is depend on the color temperature. Our eyes is used to 5500 Kelvin color temperature (noon sunlight). So white will looks white under 5500K light source. Below 5500K the white will looks yellowish (warmer), above 5500K white will looks bluish (cooler). Enough theory... Some tips to get the right WB: 1. Shoot RAW. So you can adjust the WB later in your PC. 2. Try other camera setting (sunny, cloudy, tungsten, etc.) before using the auto WB (last option). 3. If you have custom WB in your camera, set it first to get the best color before actual shot. To set the custom WB, you can try to use white paper or foam cup. Cover the lens with white paper or the white foam cup, point the lens to the light source (the strongest light source if many), set the WB (or shoot a pic for WB reference - DSLR). Most of the camera manuals said, to search for a white object for custom WB setting. But from my experience it is much easier to get proper WB by covering the lens with white paper or white foam cup, and point the lens to the light source to set the WB. Happy shooting!

FastStone Image Viewer Software I found a very good freeware for foto browsing: http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm They also have other nice freewares: http://www.faststone.org/index.htm I've been using the FastStone viewer since last year, and I'm very happy with it. Not only free, the support is very responsive. Just last February, they launched 2 beta version for us to test it. I wrote to them (him) a few time, and they always reply my email the next day, whether it is about suggestion or bug report. Excellent support !!! I'm using the latest beta version, it can browse .RAW and .NEF very fast!!! Kudos FastStone!!!

Let's contribute anything we know about digital imaging. From basic knowledge, software, image editing tips & tricks, etc. Hopefully it will be a useful thread for all of us

What a collection Precious classical foto gears!!! Very unique!!! I think the value will increase when film cameras become antique collector's item. Something like the vinyl recording and CD

Thanks guys! It shot using my old G2 Kenshinz, I think this thread is good enough, don't think it is appropriate for too many threads about digital camera in headphone forum Maybe since most of us use digital, it would be usefull to start a thread about foto editing tips and tricks Like what the best RAW converter, and how to improve your digital foto

Boring day.... Bring up this thread for fun Tropical has moved to D70 club

Let me guess, your Tamron is the 24-135mm...