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Very nice, the late day lighting really adds to the depth of your pics. In the stormy and war zone pics, did you adjust to color of the sky?

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Eric
Disclaimer: Snapshooter, and proud of it ;-)
http://www.pbase.com/haglunde
Emese Gaal said:
Took my G2 to the Miramar Air Show this last weekend. Unfortunately
I didn't have an add on zoom lens so when looking at all the
professionals with the big telescopics I definitely felt a twinge
of lens envy. However, I still got some keepers and ran into like 5
other people with a G2.

Here's the gallery:

http://www.sciencemeetsart.com/emese/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album82

Here are some samples:











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Pics: http://www.sciencemeetsart.com/emese/gallery/
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The pictures look impressive. Please explain to a beginner what the term "viewed 9 times" etc means. Thanks.
Emese Gaal said:
Took my G2 to the Miramar Air Show this last weekend. Unfortunately
I didn't have an add on zoom lens so when looking at all the
professionals with the big telescopics I definitely felt a twinge
of lens envy. However, I still got some keepers and ran into like 5
other people with a G2.

Here's the gallery:

http://www.sciencemeetsart.com/emese/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album82

Here are some samples:











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Pics: http://www.sciencemeetsart.com/emese/gallery/
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Eric Haglund said:
Very nice, the late day lighting really adds to the depth of your
pics. In the stormy and war zone pics, did you adjust to color of
the sky?
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Well, for most of the day at the air show it was kind of overcast and hazy. In order to add some visual punch back into my pictures, I started playing around with contrast and color balance but I couldn't realistically get a very good result. Then I tried Auto Levels and that's what made those pictures look like that. It's not realistic but I kind of liked the mood it created so I kept them. I hope that answers your questions.

Emese


Pics: http://www.sciencemeetsart.com/emese/gallery/
 
fran63 said:
The pictures look impressive. Please explain to a beginner what
the term "viewed 9 times" etc means. Thanks.
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That's just gallery's hit counter. It counts how many times a picture has been viewed by visitors to the web site. A view is counted for every distinct visitor (an IP address within a given visitor session time frame). So for example, it won't keep counting if I keep hitting refresh. However, it counts a different view if I visit on Monday and then I visit again on Tuesday. I hope that makes sense. All this is an automatic function of the gallery software that runs on our server (which by the way I recommend to anyone who wants an easy way to organize pictures on the web http://gallery.menalto.com/ )

Emese


Pics: http://www.sciencemeetsart.com/emese/gallery/
 
Hi Emese - great pics, very nice captured. I mostly like the end of the day pics, although I found them all very good. Keep posting!

Regards,
Emese Gaal said:
Took my G2 to the Miramar Air Show this last weekend. Unfortunately
I didn't have an add on zoom lens so when looking at all the
professionals with the big telescopics I definitely felt a twinge
of lens envy. However, I still got some keepers and ran into like 5
other people with a G2.

Here's the gallery:

http://www.sciencemeetsart.com/emese/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album82
Click to expand...
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Paulo Abreu
Canon G2 - Olympus B-300 B-28 B-Macro
http://www.pbase.com/psergio
 
Nice shots Emese.

Viewing your galleries really makes me miss living in San Diego. I might suggest you do some shots at WindanSea.

Please??? :-)
 
Emese,

Beautiful pictures. Can you please explain to the beginner, how you made the boarders.
Thanks
Emese Gaal said:
Took my G2 to the Miramar Air Show this last weekend. Unfortunately
I didn't have an add on zoom lens so when looking at all the
professionals with the big telescopics I definitely felt a twinge
of lens envy. However, I still got some keepers and ran into like 5
other people with a G2.

Here's the gallery:

http://www.sciencemeetsart.com/emese/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album82

Here are some samples:











--

Pics: http://www.sciencemeetsart.com/emese/gallery/
Click to expand...
 
I agree, it added a very cool mood to the pictures---

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Eric
Disclaimer: Snapshooter, and proud of it ;-)
http://www.pbase.com/haglunde
Emese Gaal said:
Eric Haglund said:
Very nice, the late day lighting really adds to the depth of your
pics. In the stormy and war zone pics, did you adjust to color of
the sky?
Click to expand...
Well, for most of the day at the air show it was kind of overcast
and hazy. In order to add some visual punch back into my pictures,
I started playing around with contrast and color balance but I
couldn't realistically get a very good result. Then I tried Auto
Levels and that's what made those pictures look like that. It's not
realistic but I kind of liked the mood it created so I kept them. I
hope that answers your questions.

Emese


Pics: http://www.sciencemeetsart.com/emese/gallery/
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Nice shots. If you intended to have the sky and its color as your subject they are very well done however, if in a couple of the pics such as the helocopter shot, I would have upped the exposure in order to bring out the helocopter more.
Paulo Abreu said:
Regards,
Emese Gaal said:
Took my G2 to the Miramar Air Show this last weekend. Unfortunately
I didn't have an add on zoom lens so when looking at all the
professionals with the big telescopics I definitely felt a twinge
of lens envy. However, I still got some keepers and ran into like 5
other people with a G2.

Here's the gallery:

http://www.sciencemeetsart.com/emese/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album82
Click to expand...
--
Paulo Abreu
Canon G2 - Olympus B-300 B-28 B-Macro
http://www.pbase.com/psergio
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Very nice! I especially liked the sunset shots with the purples and oranges in the sky. All of your galleries look great. What settings are you using, and what kind of post-processing? Your G2 photos look MUCH better than my S40 shots (I suspect that it is not the camera but the cameraman).

BTW, when did they move Miramar to October? What happened to August? I miss going to all the airshows, especially El Toro and Miramar.

Damon
Emese Gaal said:
Took my G2 to the Miramar Air Show this last weekend. Unfortunately
I didn't have an add on zoom lens so when looking at all the
professionals with the big telescopics I definitely felt a twinge
of lens envy. However, I still got some keepers and ran into like 5
other people with a G2.

Here's the gallery:

http://www.sciencemeetsart.com/emese/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album82

Here are some samples:











--

Pics: http://www.sciencemeetsart.com/emese/gallery/
Click to expand...
 
TolikLev said:
Emese,
Beautiful pictures. Can you please explain to the beginner, how
you made the boarders.
Thanks
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Here are the steps I went through (I actually have a template I use - one of these days I'll make it into an action):

To create the white border I used the Canvas Size command under the Image menu in PhotoShop. Make sure your background color is set to white, then add 10 pixels in each dimension and hit ok. Now do a select all and copy paste into the original document thereby placing the image with the border on its own layer. Next, set your background color to gray and go back to the Canvas size command and increase the canvas size by about 30 pixels. Feel free to color in the whole background layer with the gray color using the paint bucket or the Edit/Fill command. Now select the image layer, go to the Layer menu, and from the Layer Style submenu choose Drop Shadow. I have the following settings for mine:
Opacity 75%
Angle 120 (also try 130)
Distance 7
Spread 20
Size 25

That's it.

Now there's actually some actions that do similar things on this web page. Try them and see if you like them:
http://www.starzen.com/imaging/psactphotoborders.htm

Emese

Pics: http://www.sciencemeetsart.com/emese/gallery/
 
DWillens said:
Very nice! I especially liked the sunset shots with the purples
and oranges in the sky. All of your galleries look great. What
settings are you using, and what kind of post-processing? Your G2
photos look MUCH better than my S40 shots (I suspect that it is not
the camera but the cameraman).
Click to expand...
For these shots I just had the G2 set to P mode. Nothing special.

As far as post processing, I usually go through these steps but the amount of adjustments I apply really depends on the image.

1. Crop the scene until I'm happy with the composition(I tend to like images that are closely cropped).
2. Resize if I'm prepping for the web but not if I'm prepping for printing

3. Auto Levels in Photoshop to see what it does. Sometimes this does wonders sometimes this does a complete whack job. It's always worth giving a try.

4. If Auto Levels doesn't work or if it's not enough, usually the next step for me is Curves or Brightness/Contrast. I try increasing the contrast of the image just a little bit +4 or +5. Sometimes even just a little adjustment can really make the colors pop out.

5. Since I'm a color junkie I usually try adjusting Saturation. For a deep saturation I go with +15 or +20 , but this also increases the noise in the picture so if it's easy to overdo.

6. To make a sunset shot seem warmer, I sometimes mess with Color Balance. I sometimes increase the reds and yellows in the picture. Slide the color balance slider to about +20 red and -15 blue (towards the yellows). However, the orange sky you see in the helicopter pictures is straight out of the camera. I didn't even increase saturation on that one (sometimes luck and nature cooperate).

7. The final step is always sharpening. I use the Unsharp Mask filter. I usually prefer an amount somewhere between 115 to 125 depending on the image with a radius of .5 and a threshold between 3 to 5. It's not an exact science. Play with the values to see what it does to your image. When you do this, make sure you are viewing the image at 100% otherwise the results can be deceiving. Oversharpening (something which I'm often guilty of) often causes unwanted halos and jaggies.
DWillens said:
BTW, when did they move Miramar to October? What happened to
August? I miss going to all the airshows, especially El Toro and
Miramar.
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Dunno. I moved to San Diego 2 years ago so I've only seen one other show and that one was in October too. Last year they cancelled it because of the terrorist attacks.

Emese


Pics: http://www.sciencemeetsart.com/emese/gallery/
 
Emese Gaal said:
DWillens said:
Very nice! I especially liked the sunset shots with the purples
and oranges in the sky. All of your galleries look great. What
settings are you using, and what kind of post-processing? Your G2
photos look MUCH better than my S40 shots (I suspect that it is not
the camera but the cameraman).
Click to expand...
For these shots I just had the G2 set to P mode. Nothing special.

As far as post processing, I usually go through these steps but the
amount of adjustments I apply really depends on the image.

1. Crop the scene until I'm happy with the composition(I tend to
like images that are closely cropped).
2. Resize if I'm prepping for the web but not if I'm prepping for
printing
3. Auto Levels in Photoshop to see what it does. Sometimes this
does wonders sometimes this does a complete whack job. It's always
worth giving a try.
4. If Auto Levels doesn't work or if it's not enough, usually the
next step for me is Curves or Brightness/Contrast. I try increasing
the contrast of the image just a little bit +4 or +5. Sometimes
even just a little adjustment can really make the colors pop out.
5. Since I'm a color junkie I usually try adjusting Saturation. For
a deep saturation I go with +15 or +20 , but this also increases
the noise in the picture so if it's easy to overdo.
6. To make a sunset shot seem warmer, I sometimes mess with Color
Balance. I sometimes increase the reds and yellows in the picture.
Slide the color balance slider to about +20 red and -15 blue
(towards the yellows). However, the orange sky you see in the
helicopter pictures is straight out of the camera. I didn't even
increase saturation on that one (sometimes luck and nature
cooperate).
7. The final step is always sharpening. I use the Unsharp Mask
filter. I usually prefer an amount somewhere between 115 to 125
depending on the image with a radius of .5 and a threshold between
3 to 5. It's not an exact science. Play with the values to see what
it does to your image. When you do this, make sure you are viewing
the image at 100% otherwise the results can be deceiving.
Oversharpening (something which I'm often guilty of) often causes
unwanted halos and jaggies.
Click to expand...
Hello Emese

Wonderful photos they are very impressive. The information above is terrific very explanatory. Hope you don't mind if I ask some adivice - I have borrowed a G2 for the weekend (without a manual) and we are off to a resort part of New Guinea (believe me there are very few here) so I have been practicing with the G2, can you tell me what is the difference between Auto mode and P mode. I thought that Audo mode was the P & S mode and P mode was when you wanted more control with the camera. Your help would be much appreciated.
Regards
Rene
 
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