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A few more 707 demos

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pix look good...
 
One of the best 707 'end user' pictures seen so far. Noice on some portraits much higher than on my old Nikon, but overall very nice. Coolpix never had such lens like this one (and won;t have soon, looks like :( ).

Have you applied any corrections or are these resized, 'straight from the camera'?

What kind of monopod you use, may I ask please? Never had one so far but looks like it may be time to get one...

ZB
Rich said:
It was too wet and cloudy to do much outside. I have a few candids
from the mall. Most of my shots today were indoor flash shots
(which are far better than the S85) of the family, and the wife
won't allow posting those. Paranoid I guess. Tomorrow I'll
torment the cats instead.

Enjoy,

Rich

http://www.imagestation.com/album/index.html?id=4292328567
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Those look great! Apparently a cloudy day doesn't hamper you at all.
Rich said:
It was too wet and cloudy to do much outside. I have a few candids
from the mall. Most of my shots today were indoor flash shots
(which are far better than the S85) of the family, and the wife
won't allow posting those. Paranoid I guess. Tomorrow I'll
torment the cats instead.

Enjoy,

Rich

http://www.imagestation.com/album/index.html?id=4292328567
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ZB62660 said:
Have you applied any corrections or are these resized, 'straight
from the camera'?
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Crop, sharp 1, and resize to 700 X 900 in PSLE.
ZB62660 said:
What kind of monopod you use, may I ask please? Never had one so
far but looks like it may be time to get one...
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It's a Slick E-Z Pod (very slick!). It's a lot easier to lug around than a tripod, and works well in most situations.

Thanks for the kind words.

Rich
 
Rich,

Keep the samples coming, these were great!

Any idea what the ISO was in the first candid mall shots?
Rich said:
It was too wet and cloudy to do much outside. I have a few candids
from the mall. Most of my shots today were indoor flash shots
(which are far better than the S85) of the family, and the wife
won't allow posting those. Paranoid I guess. Tomorrow I'll
torment the cats instead.

Enjoy,

Rich

http://www.imagestation.com/album/index.html?id=4292328567
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Noise levels are acceptable IMO, if they were shot at ISO auto or 200-400. I personally lock my settings on ISO 100. If set to auto, the camera could jump around between aprox. ISO 100-300 based on ambient lighting conditions. Clear color NR should keep things in check at the higher ISO's
Cezary Szyld said:
pix look good, but noise ..... :-((

Cezar
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Rich said:
Rich_1 said:
Have you applied any corrections or are these resized, 'straight
from the camera'?
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Crop, sharp 1, and resize to 700 X 900 in PSLE.
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I wonder if the sharp 1 adjustment may have contributed to the appearance of noise. For example the first portrait shows noise in the woman's face and out of focus background. What ISO were you using? That noise is a bit much for the 707, and I'd like to figure out why. If you still have the original, could you post another crop unsharpened?

Temperature also plays a role in noise, but I can't imagine a shopping mall being very warm inside.
Rich_1 said:
Rich_1 said:
What kind of monopod you use, may I ask please? Never had one so
far but looks like it may be time to get one...
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It's a Slick E-Z Pod (very slick!). It's a lot easier to lug
around than a tripod, and works well in most situations.
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I need to get a monopod myself, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet. I'm sure it would improve my pictures since I rarely drag the tripod around.
 
I have tried to view a few albums posted on Imagestation by various people and find that all I can get to is the cover page. When I click on next the same picture comes up. Is this an indication that the site is overloaded?

Isabel
 
Thank you all for your comments.

Ron,

I'll certainly give that sequence a try in the future. In fact, I'll redo these using that sequence and repost along with the originals. Give me a little while.

Greg-I agree about the noise. When my abilities improve , perhaps I will become more critical, but so far I am very pleased also. The camera was on full auto

The ISO settings were as follows:
Girl 320
Man 200
VAn 160

Isabel-Don't know what's up with Image station, although it can be kind of buggy at times. Give it another try.

Thank you all again,

Rich
 
Rich said:
Thank you all for your comments.

Ron,
I'll certainly give that sequence a try in the future. In fact,
I'll redo these using that sequence and repost along with the
originals. Give me a little while.
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It's a minor thing, so don't knock yourself out too much over it. Here's one reason why it can help:

For noisy shots, applying a sharpening filter will tend to accentuate the noise. If you reduce the shot first, the reduction will tend to smooth out the noise, so that when you apply a sharpening filter later, it will have a much more targeted effect, emphasizing the true edges in the image and not the noise.

A second reason is that the even with a clean image, the act of reducing the image can affect the amount of sharpening that you want. Some reduction algorithms tend to give you jaggies and some (such as bicubic resampling in photoshop) tend to soften edges. If you do the sharpening before the reduction, it's hard to know if you haven't done enough or if you've done too much.

Ron Parr
 
I like the color tone, it's deep! Thanks Rick.

Antoine
Rich said:
Thank you all for your comments.

Ron,
I'll certainly give that sequence a try in the future. In fact,
I'll redo these using that sequence and repost along with the
originals. Give me a little while.

Greg-I agree about the noise. When my abilities improve , perhaps
I will become more critical, but so far I am very pleased also.
The camera was on full auto

The ISO settings were as follows:
Girl 320
Man 200
VAn 160

Isabel-Don't know what's up with Image station, although it can be
kind of buggy at times. Give it another try.

Thank you all again,

Rich
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Ron-I re-processed the photos as you suggested. I personally can't see much difference, but my vision is only correctable to 20/40 and I certainly have a lot to learn about processing and photography.

See what you think. Also, I have include several of the originals for review. Again, these were all shot on full auto, so any suggestions on how to improve them using manual control is appreciated. For my purposes, I think they are outstanding. Clearly, if I was going to blow them up to 11 x 17 or so, there are issues.

http://www.imagestation.com/album/index.html?id=4292328567
Rich
 
First impressions:

1. Nice portraits. Image quality is horrible (red noise, some motion blur), but framing and content are great.
2. Great car. (big fan of Nissans)

Keep posting!
Rich said:
It was too wet and cloudy to do much outside. I have a few candids
from the mall. Most of my shots today were indoor flash shots
(which are far better than the S85) of the family, and the wife
won't allow posting those. Paranoid I guess. Tomorrow I'll
torment the cats instead.
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Thanks for sharing the photos. Now that I see the originals, I see how much noise you were dealing with. I tried cleaning up one of your high ISO shots in photoshop. Here are the results:



Here's what I did:

1. Cropped

2. Did some noise reduction (search for Jes's filter in the Canon forums if you're interested.)
3. Reduced

4. Sharpened with unsharpen mask (I used a threshhold of 4 to avoid boosting the remaining noise)
5. Adjusted brightness and contrast

I'm not sure it was worth it, but it is, I think, significantly cleaner than what you had before.

Ron Parr

P.S. I'm going to remove this in a couple of days (or sooner if you ask) so let me know if you'd like me to email you a copy.
 
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