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Nicholas,

Dont tell anyone (I'm a Nikonian on the hunt for a D100) but they are great pics I esp. like the wedding garden and Tulip shots.

The D60 looks like a damn fine camera to me ! How much post porcessing on those ?
  • Simon
Nicholas said:
Picked up my D60 last night. Shot these after work today (Wednesday):

http://www.pbase.com/nicholas/garden

Your comments are eagerly welcome. All default settings and my
Sigma 12-35 2.8-4 lens.

--
The joy of photography is being there when you take the picture.
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Looking at your exposure settings:

How are you arriving at an EV of 1/30 sec @ f11, on a bright, sunny day?
Are you intentionally overexposing?

Some images are 1/10 sec / f19.

Just curious WHY you chose some of your exposure values.
 
They look a bit overprocessed...I would guess too much levels and definitely too much sharpening...they don't have that smooth look as in
Jaja's new D60 pics. I would probably keep that lens at around F11...you
start to get diffraction after that.
Anthony said:
Looking at your exposure settings:

How are you arriving at an EV of 1/30 sec @ f11, on a bright, sunny
day?
Are you intentionally overexposing?

Some images are 1/10 sec / f19.

Just curious WHY you chose some of your exposure values.
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I'm not sure if you're looking for this but here's some (hopefully) constructive crtitcism. I found two problems with these images. The first, I think has to do with using such a wide angle lens. I find the composition on most of the pictures too busy. As Michael Riechman likes to say (and I agree) the purpose of landscape photography is to simplify and isolate that which is beautiful and compelling. With such a wide field of view, this is difficult to do--there's simply too much stuff in the picture. I find wide angle landscapes work best in the vertical orientation by focusing on something interesting in the forground with then takes your eye and sweeps outward towards the middle and background. My second observation is about the lighting. Its too harsh and bright. The horizontal photo of the tulips (my favorite of the group) would be much nicer if the lighting were softer and richer as it would be later in the day, closer to sunset. Hope this is helpfull. Scott.
Nicholas said:
Picked up my D60 last night. Shot these after work today (Wednesday):

http://www.pbase.com/nicholas/garden

Your comments are eagerly welcome. All default settings and my
Sigma 12-35 2.8-4 lens.

--
The joy of photography is being there when you take the picture.
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I second Scott's observations. The iamges did not give me a "wow" feeling. given that other first D60 images have been posted earlier. The images are definitely overexposed, and not really having the silky look the typical D30 or D60 images have. I wonder if they were post-processed with unsharp mask?

I believe with a much faster aperture lense, even the 50mm F1.8, the same images would look much improved.

Just my 2 cents.

Harry
Scott Rosenfeld said:
Nicholas said:
Picked up my D60 last night. Shot these after work today (Wednesday):

http://www.pbase.com/nicholas/garden

Your comments are eagerly welcome. All default settings and my
Sigma 12-35 2.8-4 lens.

--
The joy of photography is being there when you take the picture.
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On the other hand, the man just got his new camera. That rush from pulling a new machine out of the box can cloud one's artistic judgment. As I can attest...
harry said:
I believe with a much faster aperture lense, even the 50mm F1.8,
the same images would look much improved.

Just my 2 cents.

Harry
Scott Rosenfeld said:
Nicholas said:
Picked up my D60 last night. Shot these after work today (Wednesday):

http://www.pbase.com/nicholas/garden

Your comments are eagerly welcome. All default settings and my
Sigma 12-35 2.8-4 lens.

--
The joy of photography is being there when you take the picture.
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I hope our observations are constructive. He's looking for comments and maybe some helps. If that's not the intent, then he shouldn't have rushed to post his images that soon. It's fair to say that an "average" D60 image would typically look a bit smoother and than Nick's images. To be honest, his images "feel" like taken by a prosumer type digicam, not from a D60. We all wish he gets the best from his D60.

Harry
Dave the Knife said:
harry said:
I believe with a much faster aperture lense, even the 50mm F1.8,
the same images would look much improved.

Just my 2 cents.

Harry
Scott Rosenfeld said:
Nicholas said:
Picked up my D60 last night. Shot these after work today (Wednesday):

http://www.pbase.com/nicholas/garden

Your comments are eagerly welcome. All default settings and my
Sigma 12-35 2.8-4 lens.

--
The joy of photography is being there when you take the picture.
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... with Scott:

In particular, the statue through the arbor shot has too much to look at. Are you showcasing the arbor or the statue or the apartments behind? I think that this image would pop with much less DOF so that the arbor becomes a frame for the nice statue and the apartments bokeh away...

Wayne
Scott Rosenfeld said:
Nicholas said:
Picked up my D60 last night. Shot these after work today (Wednesday):

http://www.pbase.com/nicholas/garden

Your comments are eagerly welcome. All default settings and my
Sigma 12-35 2.8-4 lens.

--
The joy of photography is being there when you take the picture.
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Wait! Take back what I just said! These shots were made in 1980! What a phenomenal pre-digital, digital shot!

Wayne
Nicholas said:
Picked up my D60 last night. Shot these after work today (Wednesday):

http://www.pbase.com/nicholas/garden

Your comments are eagerly welcome. All default settings and my
Sigma 12-35 2.8-4 lens.

--
The joy of photography is being there when you take the picture.
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Thank you all for your comments. I read each post and went back to the original image. I have used unsharp mask lightly , 50,1.0,0 and the
only other thing I did was re-size.
I posted my 4 revised images along with the original post which
generated all of your welcomed remarks.

http://www.pbase.com/nicholas/garden

please note:

These shots after work were taken in a 40 minute window when the garden closes. It was a bit breezey. Tulips won't wait for good lighting.

I posted the statue picture for only one reason: you can see the motar in between all the bricks in the building far in the background.
Thanks to your suggestions my revised image has even more resolution.

I posted the Redtulipring shot because there is a person in a wheelchair, whom is even more visible in my revision, thanks to you all.

One thing that amazes me about the D60 in these shots is the Dynamic Range from highlight to shadow. These images could not be captured on film IMHO.

I believe I am a bit closer to my D30 Look, Thank you again.
 
It is unbelievable how heavy the traffic is on this Forum.
I followed-up to myself to refresh this post to make sure
each of you would see my Thank You since you last booted up:

Thank you all for your comments. I read each post and went back to
the original image. I have used unsharp mask lightly , 50,1.0,0
and the
only other thing I did was re-size.
I posted my 4 revised images along with the original post which
generated all of your welcomed remarks.

http://www.pbase.com/nicholas/garden

please note:

These shots after work were taken in a 40 minute window when the
garden closes. It was a bit breezey. Tulips won't wait for good
lighting.
I posted the statue picture for only one reason: you can see the
motar in between all the bricks in the building far in the
background.
Thanks to your suggestions my revised image has even more resolution.

I posted the Redtulipring shot because there is a person in a
wheelchair, whom is even more visible in my revision, thanks to you
all.

One thing that amazes me about the D60 in these shots is the
Dynamic Range from highlight to shadow. These images could not be
captured on film IMHO.

I believe I am a bit closer to my D30 Look, Thank you again.
--
The joy of photography is being there when you take the picture.
 
Keep working at it, you'll do fine. It takes a while to get used to a new camera.
All your photos are dated 1980. Might want to change the date in the camera :-)
-Kevin
 
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