To be honest, I'd been about ready to throw the camera bag to Ebay and give this chit up after trying for several years to catch up from a "year off" and getting out of the "loop"... (actually, it's a ZEN thing) but fooled around a bit with shutter speeds this PRS.. Shot most of my IF1, and Sport stuff at 400 (it works, fairly good prop blur) and struggled with the UL's at 320.. got some decent stuff there.. tried a few laps at 250 and managed to pull out about 1% (or less) of what I did there..
I'll never be able to get even close to Victor Archer, but this one (and a couple of others) that I shot at 250, bad light, original is way underexposed (thank god for RAW) came out OK..
I also discovered Nikon's "view" program, which makes it REALLY easy (read FAST) to review and delete raw/jpg folders.. (read that.... deletes both files in one swoop) and I'm having a much easier time going through the stuff I shoot..
I WILL have a gallery up sometime over the next 30 days.. but will try to share some that I run across as I cull out the bad (majority) of my shots from PRS.. maybe, I'll even dig back a few years and get some of my earlier work posted.... (cha... right)
Anyway.. just one for now.. I should post the original, if it doesn't make you swear by raw... this is a "cropper".. shot while trying to get some background in the shot stuff.. Stevo had just cleared any chance of that and this one seemed to have potential, even though very dark.. it's not, by any means, perfect... We were in cloud shade, sky was pretty backlit.. but it came out OK..
Lemme know whatcha think..
PS.. second shot is the orignal.. noticing that the display program thing has a bit of a problem with image sizing.. the shot on the left, when you click on the thumb, is not truly the image.. it's "kinked" a bit.. due to some resizing thing going on with the java "lightbox" display deal.. click on the full size (java display) shot and you'll actualy see a bit better rendition of what's there.. I'm pretty amazed at how far you can go with 'out of camera' adjustments to exposure and such when shooting raw.. Can't make sunlight, only god can do that but you can make up a lot of lost ground with post processing!
I'll never be able to get even close to Victor Archer, but this one (and a couple of others) that I shot at 250, bad light, original is way underexposed (thank god for RAW) came out OK..
I also discovered Nikon's "view" program, which makes it REALLY easy (read FAST) to review and delete raw/jpg folders.. (read that.... deletes both files in one swoop) and I'm having a much easier time going through the stuff I shoot..
I WILL have a gallery up sometime over the next 30 days.. but will try to share some that I run across as I cull out the bad (majority) of my shots from PRS.. maybe, I'll even dig back a few years and get some of my earlier work posted.... (cha... right)
Anyway.. just one for now.. I should post the original, if it doesn't make you swear by raw... this is a "cropper".. shot while trying to get some background in the shot stuff.. Stevo had just cleared any chance of that and this one seemed to have potential, even though very dark.. it's not, by any means, perfect... We were in cloud shade, sky was pretty backlit.. but it came out OK..
Lemme know whatcha think..
PS.. second shot is the orignal.. noticing that the display program thing has a bit of a problem with image sizing.. the shot on the left, when you click on the thumb, is not truly the image.. it's "kinked" a bit.. due to some resizing thing going on with the java "lightbox" display deal.. click on the full size (java display) shot and you'll actualy see a bit better rendition of what's there.. I'm pretty amazed at how far you can go with 'out of camera' adjustments to exposure and such when shooting raw.. Can't make sunlight, only god can do that but you can make up a lot of lost ground with post processing!
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