Not my best, but a nice sunset in the making...

[John Macdonald]

This was a little snapshot just before we headed home the other day.

[kbasa]

What happened to the pic, John?

[Marc]

What happened to the pic, John?John, try the IMG tags you're so familiar with... it oughta help!

Marc

[John Macdonald]

let's try that again...

[Baldy]

Whoa! So niiiiccceee....

[John Macdonald]

Irfanview was so easy to deal with.
PS is taking a bit more of a bite to get into.
I had to resize and change stuff and learn on the fly how to deal with it all.

Along with the 1D I got photoshop.
I have seven hundred or so images from Tahiti to sort through and have quite a learning curve to climb on this one.

The orig image looked much more crisp, seems I had to lower the quality a bit to get it on the screen here.

Or something like that...

What happened to the pic, John?

[John Macdonald]

The sky was just exploding there.
I took about seven or so images as the sun was setting, but this one had the motion I wanted to capture.
And the light was my favorite of all of them (and it was the first of them too).
As I recall, I underexposed this one 1-1/3 stop.

Sitting there, without my sunglasses on, the sky looked nice, but not like this.
As I did an eyeglass switch, I could see with my eyes what a little underexposure would do for things in the camera.
Raised the 1D to my eye and thumbed the exposure comp wheel as I focused on the huts (or was it a tree...) and locked it there. I think I metered on one of the darker clouds then hit the shutter button.

Shot this one with the 28-70L


Whoa! So niiiiccceee....

[kbasa]

You know that Irfanview has a nice batch conversion feature for resizing entire directories of photos at one pass? I used to use it in a production environment to resize 11 x 17 .tif images to 8.5 x 11.

[John Macdonald]

I didn't know that at all!
I'm thinking of just sticking with irfanview for the web stuff and learning PS on the side.
What a handful!

So thanks for the tip.
I assume I just go to the irfanview site and browse thorugh the plugins?



You know that Irfanview has a nice batch conversion feature for resizing entire directories of photos at one pass? I used to use it in a production environment to resize 11 x 17 .tif images to 8.5 x 11.

[kbasa]

I didn't know that at all!
I'm thinking of just sticking with irfanview for the web stuff and learning PS on the side.
What a handful!

So thanks for the tip.
I assume I just go to the irfanview site and browse thorugh the plugins?
No it's actually part of the base functionality. Go to File>Batch Conversion/rename. It'll convert files from one format to another as well as resize them. It's not real intuitive, so poke around a little with a back up copy before you start letting it rip on a hundred photos at a time.

One of the cool things is that it generates a log at the end and will tell you if any of the pics didn't get dealt with.

[Andy]

really, really nice. i want to be there!

:clap:

let's try that again...