Got 2004 off to healthy start (S400)

[Justme]

Was out playing golf this afternoon (somewhere in eastern Ontario). The recent rains and mild temps have melted most of the snow. Took this shot in Macro mode with the S400, my take anywhere camera.



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http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/the_adventure_of_squirrels
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/hopewell_rocks
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/cabot_trail__cape_breton

 

[Bill Dennen]

Looks great! Did you do any post-processing on the photo?

 

[Justme]

Looks great! Did you do any post-processing on the photo?

Thanks. Very little as the S400 usually handles exposure quite well. I did adjust Levels to bring it up a bit and did a bit of USM. Probably was my fault for setting EC to -2/3. Rest of settings were ISO 50 -- F10 -- 1/500s -- WB = Cloudy -- Neutral Colour

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http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/the_adventure_of_squirrels
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/hopewell_rocks
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/cabot_trail__cape_breton

 

[CHIA]

Great shot!!!!!!!

Was out playing golf this afternoon (somewhere in eastern Ontario).
The recent rains and mild temps have melted most of the snow. Took
this shot in Macro mode with the S400, my take anywhere camera.



--
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/the_adventure_of_squirrels
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/hopewell_rocks
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/cabot_trail__cape_breton

 

[Justme]

Great shot!!!!!!!

Thanks. Shots like this are harder to do without a swiveling LCD but obviously still doable. I pointed the centre AF square at the middle of the ball. If I had to take another shot I may have tried focusing on the letters to the right of the ball (Top-Flite) and then recomposed.

Was out playing golf this afternoon (somewhere in eastern Ontario).
The recent rains and mild temps have melted most of the snow. Took
this shot in Macro mode with the S400, my take anywhere camera.

http://www.pbase.com/image/24696110.jpg

--
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/the_adventure_of_squirrels
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/hopewell_rocks
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/cabot_trail__cape_breton

 

[montana183004]

Was out playing golf this afternoon (somewhere in eastern Ontario).
The recent rains and mild temps have melted most of the snow. Took
this shot in Macro mode with the S400, my take anywhere camera.



--
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/the_adventure_of_squirrels
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/hopewell_rocks
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/cabot_trail__cape_breton

 

[Isabel Cutler]

And congratulations for getting down on your knees (and getting up) to make that one! Great sharp shot!
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[Isabel Cutler]

Where do you find these gorgeous dark squirrels? I've never seen that color before.
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[Isabel Cutler]

How did you insert those mouseover comments on pbase????
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[Isabel Cutler]

I'm still waking up!
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[Steve Patterson]

Wonderful pic..can I ask why you used neutral colour? I am a beginner and need to learn all I can! Colour came out really well.....steve

Looks great! Did you do any post-processing on the photo?

Thanks. Very little as the S400 usually handles exposure quite
well. I did adjust Levels to bring it up a bit and did a bit of
USM. Probably was my fault for setting EC to -2/3. Rest of
settings were ISO 50 -- F10 -- 1/500s -- WB = Cloudy -- Neutral
Colour

--
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/the_adventure_of_squirrels
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/hopewell_rocks
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/cabot_trail__cape_breton

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steve

 

[teal fankhauser]

Was out playing golf this afternoon (somewhere in eastern Ontario).
The recent rains and mild temps have melted most of the snow. Took
this shot in Macro mode with the S400, my take anywhere camera.



--
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/the_adventure_of_squirrels
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/hopewell_rocks
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/cabot_trail__cape_breton

The pictures of Cape Breton are beautiful, Im going back to Inverness in the spring, what kind of setting were you using on Cabot Trail ?? Im using a G5. Thank You

 

[Justme]

Wonderful pic..can I ask why you used neutral colour? I am a
beginner and need to learn all I can! Colour came out really
well.....steve

Thanks. I should clarify. By neutral I meant colour effects was turned off so I was using the cameras default colour setting. The default colour setting already produces nice rich colours. There is another colour setting called Neutral (wasn't referring to this setting) which some use for indoor flash shots (lessens orange/red tones on some skin types when flash is used indoors under certain lighting conditions).

I have used Vivid mode on occasion to give an extra colour boost to ceratin scenes (I suppose you can also choose to do this in post processing instead). However, I have found that Vivid mode can wash out detail (especially shadow detail) if the colour of the object is very dark (black for instance) like you find at the centre of some flowers or maybe someone in silhouette.

Looks great! Did you do any post-processing on the photo?

Thanks. Very little as the S400 usually handles exposure quite
well. I did adjust Levels to bring it up a bit and did a bit of
USM. Probably was my fault for setting EC to -2/3. Rest of
settings were ISO 50 -- F10 -- 1/500s -- WB = Cloudy -- Neutral
Colour

--
steve

--
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/the_adventure_of_squirrels
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/hopewell_rocks
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/cabot_trail__cape_breton

 

[Justme]

Thanks for the nice comment. I appreciate it. I can't say enough about the S400 (G3 is just a very much upgraded S400 I think) as it makes it so easy to take nice shots. I enjoyed visiting your gallery too and you have some nice artistic images in there.

Was out playing golf this afternoon (somewhere in eastern Ontario).
The recent rains and mild temps have melted most of the snow. Took
this shot in Macro mode with the S400, my take anywhere camera.

http://www.pbase.com/image/24696110.jpg

--
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/the_adventure_of_squirrels
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/hopewell_rocks
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/cabot_trail__cape_breton

 

[Justme]

And congratulations for getting down on your knees (and getting up)
to make that one! Great sharp shot!

Heheheh. Thanks. I forgot whether I was squatting or kneeling but it did take a few shots for me to get it right. Thank goodness for the nice clear S400 LCD (one of the best IMHO) as it was hard to see where the centre AF point was when the camera was down there.

I always thought this was a cool shot (taken with the G3):
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1010&message=5189809

Isabel

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http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/the_adventure_of_squirrels
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/hopewell_rocks
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/cabot_trail__cape_breton

 

[Justme]

Where do you find these gorgeous dark squirrels? I've never seen
that color before.

These are located up here in eastern Ontario, Canada. We get a variety up here including gray ones.

Isabel

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http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/the_adventure_of_squirrels
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/hopewell_rocks
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/cabot_trail__cape_breton

 

[Justme]

Was out playing golf this afternoon (somewhere in eastern Ontario).
The recent rains and mild temps have melted most of the snow. Took
this shot in Macro mode with the S400, my take anywhere camera.

http://www.pbase.com/image/24696110.jpg

The pictures of Cape Breton are beautiful, Im going back to
Inverness in the spring,

Oh, you're fortunate. Have you been there in the Spring before? I would like to see Cape Breton and particulary the Cabot Trail in each of the seasonal settings. I really enjoy the simple beauty of the area.

what kind of setting were you using on
Cabot Trail ?? Im using a G5. Thank You

Thanks. I took the Canon G2 and S400 with me to Cape Breton. I think I mainly used "P" or "Av" mode on the G2 (can't recall exactly now).

--
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/the_adventure_of_squirrels
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/hopewell_rocks
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/cabot_trail__cape_breton

 

[Steve Patterson]

Thanks, that does explain it. The colours seemed too intense for "neutral" setting. I have been using the default setting and the colour seems just fine. My understanding was that "neutral "toned the saturation down a bit. And the grass in your photo is so rich looking it doesn't look at all toned down.
steve

Wonderful pic..can I ask why you used neutral colour? I am a
beginner and need to learn all I can! Colour came out really
well.....steve

Thanks. I should clarify. By neutral I meant colour effects was
turned off so I was using the cameras default colour setting. The
default colour setting already produces nice rich colours. There
is another colour setting called Neutral (wasn't referring to this
setting) which some use for indoor flash shots (lessens orange/red
tones on some skin types when flash is used indoors under certain
lighting conditions).

I have used Vivid mode on occasion to give an extra colour boost to
ceratin scenes (I suppose you can also choose to do this in post
processing instead). However, I have found that Vivid mode can
wash out detail (especially shadow detail) if the colour of the
object is very dark (black for instance) like you find at the
centre of some flowers or maybe someone in silhouette.

Looks great! Did you do any post-processing on the photo?

Thanks. Very little as the S400 usually handles exposure quite
well. I did adjust Levels to bring it up a bit and did a bit of
USM. Probably was my fault for setting EC to -2/3. Rest of
settings were ISO 50 -- F10 -- 1/500s -- WB = Cloudy -- Neutral
Colour

--
steve

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http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/the_adventure_of_squirrels
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/hopewell_rocks
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/cabot_trail__cape_breton

--
steve

 

[teal fankhauser]

Was out playing golf this afternoon (somewhere in eastern Ontario).
The recent rains and mild temps have melted most of the snow. Took
this shot in Macro mode with the S400, my take anywhere camera.

http://www.pbase.com/image/24696110.jpg

The pictures of Cape Breton are beautiful, Im going back to
Inverness in the spring,

Oh, you're fortunate. Have you been there in the Spring before? I
would like to see Cape Breton and particulary the Cabot Trail in
each of the seasonal settings. I really enjoy the simple beauty of
the area.

what kind of setting were you using on
Cabot Trail ?? Im using a G5. Thank You

Thanks. I took the Canon G2 and S400 with me to Cape Breton. I
think I mainly used "P" or "Av" mode on the G2 (can't recall
exactly now).

--
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/the_adventure_of_squirrels
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/hopewell_rocks
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/cabot_trail__cape_breton

I was up in Sept. have a lady friend that lives there, if things work out , will be moving up. Was told that the black flies are bad till about the end of may when it starts warming up. Her brother is a lobster fisherman in Inverness, their season for fishing lobster is May and june.

 

[teal fankhauser]

Was out playing golf this afternoon (somewhere in eastern Ontario).
The recent rains and mild temps have melted most of the snow. Took
this shot in Macro mode with the S400, my take anywhere camera.

http://www.pbase.com/image/24696110.jpg

The pictures of Cape Breton are beautiful, Im going back to
Inverness in the spring,

Oh, you're fortunate. Have you been there in the Spring before? I
would like to see Cape Breton and particulary the Cabot Trail in
each of the seasonal settings. I really enjoy the simple beauty of
the area.

what kind of setting were you using on
Cabot Trail ?? Im using a G5. Thank You

Thanks. I took the Canon G2 and S400 with me to Cape Breton. I
think I mainly used "P" or "Av" mode on the G2 (can't recall
exactly now).

--
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/the_adventure_of_squirrels
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/hopewell_rocks
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/cabot_trail__cape_breton

I was up in Sept. have a lady friend that lives there, if things
work out , will be moving up. Was told that the black flies are
bad till about the end of may when it starts warming up. Her
brother is a lobster fisherman in Inverness, their season for
fishing lobster is May and june.

Forgot to say that she lives in a log house on a mountain overlooking the ocean, heat with wood, most do that live on the mountains, a few have pellet stoves.