Seagulls at Jones Beach on a mild winter day

nickphoto123 · January 9, 2006

Hello All,

At the beach with my wife ( and D60 ) feeding the seagulls.

I miss my S9000 still pending repair. The D60s CMOS likes to burnout highlights.
And the D60's 6MP does not let me crop as effectively as my S9000's 9MP.

But either with either camera time goes by and I like trying to capture some of it as it goes by.

http://nickphoto123.smugmug.com/gallery/1112162/1/51757829

Regards, Nicholas

Andy · January 9, 2006

nickphoto123 wrote:

I miss my S9000 still pending repair. The D60s CMOS likes to burnout highlights.

And the D60's 6MP does not let me crop as effectively as my S9000's 9MP.

But either with either camera time goes by and I like trying to capture some of it as it goes by.

Work with the tools you have. Take the opportunity to compose better, or wait for the subjects to be closer, or use a longer FL if you have it.. BTW in lighting like that, with a white subject, negative EC is definitely called for.. give it a try at -1/3, possibly -2/3s next time

Oh shooting in RAW would help, you could recover those highlights, I bet

I was able to recover mostly from just jpg using PS CS2 shadow/highlight tool on a small screen grab of your gull.

Andy · January 9, 2006

Sorry here's the orig:

jwear · January 9, 2006

Andy wrote:

Sorry here's the orig:

ck your email I am sending you a group of please save me shots

Andy · January 9, 2006

jwear wrote:

ck your email I am sending you a group of please save me shots

Being there, and shooting, and using our tools is about 2/3s of the job, most of the time. The other 1/3 is very important and needs to be learned, and used, else we have nothing but poorly exposed, poorly processed digital images. We owe it to our children and grandchildren, and the generations that will come after them, to leave them the best possible digital record!

nickphoto123 · January 10, 2006

Seagulls at Jones Beach on a mild winter day
In 14 you can see my wife, the cat food she is tossing in the air, and a seagull swooping down to grab the food.

In another shot you can see my tripod. I place my elbow on top of it to hold me steady when panning at times.

It is alot of fun.

Regards, Nicholas

Seagulls at Jones Beach on a mild winter day

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