Thanksgiving (A Gallery)

Janusfinder · Nov 28, 2004

Shots taken with my D70 at the family compound over Thanksgiving:

http://preakness.typepad.com/photos/tgiving2004/index.html

Janusfinder

engbert · Nov 28, 2004

Very nice pictures, but a tedious gallery, much too slow. Pbase would be much better, and very inexpensive.

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Bruce L. Snell · Nov 28, 2004

Oh my gosh those were GREAT! It's so nice to see a gallery of family images like yours that are done by someone with a keen eye and technical skill. I enjoyed everyone of the images and feel like I know you and yours! Beautiful work. I especially liked the shallow depth of field... wonderful!

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Janusfinder · Nov 28, 2004

Thank you. We return to our family cabin from all over the US for Thanksgiving and Easter each year.

All shots taken with either the kit lens or a 50/1.8.

Janusfinder

Matthew S. · Nov 28, 2004

Can you describe your workflow on how you get your pictures to look so great for use on the web. I am in the process of trying to get some pictures ready to place on the web and they do not appear to have the detail quality that yours has, meaning if I zoom to 200% on of your pictures I am just starting to see jagged edges. Where on mine, they look a lot worse. I noticed that your picture is at 75 dpi and mine is at 300 dpi and logic tells me it should have less jagged edges, but it is not the case.

BTW...fantastic pictures. You captured the feeling of T-Day with your family and passed that feeling on in pictures. Great job.

I got to get me a 50mm 1.8, man that glass takes great pictures in low light.

Thanks in advance....

Janusfinder · Nov 28, 2004

After working up the photo (levels, curves, etc) I resize in Photoshop. This includes cropping for composition (typically to 4x6) and then resizing to 640x457 pixels at 72 dpi.

Does this work for you?

Janusfinder

JuliaGreer · Nov 28, 2004

Now this is the kind of thing I love... gorgeous candids and environmental shots, all beautifully exposed and composed... I love all of these captures and the way they so beautifully express the feel of the day. Thanks for sharing these!

Julia

jerry d · Nov 28, 2004

I just registered with dpreview in order to tell you how wonderful I think your portfolio is. These are truly excellent photos.

Jerry

ginski · Nov 28, 2004

Matthew S. · Nov 29, 2004

Yeh, that was what I was looking for. Thanks.

I currently use PSP 9 and love it and will have to see if I can do that in PSP but I am thinking I may have to get PS CS as some point...but it is so hard to part with $650 just for software where most of us on here only use a few features such as USM, resizing, adjusting levels, and not for graphics design as it was intended.

Janusfinder · Nov 29, 2004

Jerry,

Thanks. I too just registered, and I posted this as my first gallery. DPR has given me so much inspiration and instruction over the years . . . thought it was finally time that I tried to return the favor.

Janusfinder

Smitty-PA · Nov 29, 2004

could join you at the family cabin on Easter?

I figure I better make sure I do it on Easter before the twins are born

Seriously... great pictures of what appears to be a wonderful family!!

Kevin Webster · Nov 29, 2004

Did you use your 50mm/1.8 on most of your indoor shots? the exposures are great, I don't see any low light shots.

Janusfinder · Nov 29, 2004

I did use the 50mm/1.8 for many of the indoor shots, though not necessarily to get around a low light issue -- instead, to experiment with shallow depth of field.

That said, the 50/1.8 is very good in low light. Recently I spent a weekend shooting at night in dark restaurants lit mostly by candle. Spent most of my time shooting without flash, with the aperture wide open, and at ISO 800 or 1600. Most shots came out OK and I really liked the "look" of the shots, especially after tweaking with the colors in postprocess.

Still wrestling with White Balance, though . . .

Janusfinder

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