Photography Nuts & Bolts

[Big Kev]

I agree Kev. Are you in touch with Gus? I've ripped his pic of the Letcliffe Tank from the site to use in an article but can't find him on the member list so I can make sure he won't be upset. I'm sure he won't object but I'd like to be polite and ask!

He's listed as Angus

[PanBiker]

Gus is indeed listed as Angus, he had a "Sunday moment" when he registered on the new site.

[Stanley]

Thanks for that lads, I've mailed and PM'd him.
Saw Kev working hard in Town Square yesterday. Deadline Thursday!

[Stanley]

I've had glowing reports of the before and after pics Kev.

[Big Kev]

I've had glowing reports of the before and after pics Kev.

That's good. I did drop in to take a look, not sure who hung them up but they don't own a spirit level

[Big Kev]

Here's an example of what was on display;

The original from Stanley's collection


and the same shot in 2012

[Whyperion]

Spot the differences ? Lamp standard on one shot curved , now a 90deg bend , is the Give Way sign the same ? Growth of the trees. Out of shot I think the lamp mounted
rubbish bin has gone and the 1970s Telephone Box ( actually they are an endangered species , in many places the traditional 1930s box is being retained , but I am finding it difficult to recall in good condition any of the flat topped red boxes around the country ).

[Stanley]

I'd forgotten the rubbish spill! How about posting the other pairs you exhibited, definitely forgotten corners!

[Big Kev]

I'd forgotten the rubbish spill! How about posting the other pairs you exhibited, definitely forgotten corners!

I'll sort is as soon as I fire up the other machine.

In the meantime here's one I took last week. We went for a nice walk around Ingleton Falls. This is just above Thornton Force.


Ingleton by Olympus_Kev, on Flickr

[Stanley]

Lots to be said for forcing a longer exposure. I love the old large format pics of falls and running water done with very slow emulsions. (And of course the ghost figures in street scenes for the same reason.)

[Big Kev]

Lots to be said for forcing a longer exposure. I love the old large format pics of falls and running water done with very slow emulsions. (And of course the ghost figures in street scenes for the same reason.)

I do enjoy the balancing act between getting enough movement and leaving details in the white areas. This can be achieved with HDR (High Dynamic Range) and multiple shots but it's much more demanding doing it with one shot . I like a challenge.

[Big Kev]

Been playing around with Photoshop today. Here's the Cross Gaits at Blacko with a few "tweaks".


Cross Gaits by Olympus_Kev, on Flickr

[Stanley]

Had 12 hours of full on images with my mate Daniel as we sorted pics for his new book. Brilliant but tiring!

[Big Kev]

I have a 500mm mirror lens on loan at the moment. It has a fixed aperture of F8 and gives an equivalent focal length of 1000mm on my Olympus. I tried it out today at Fountains Abbey Deer Park and am pleased with the results.

Stag by Olympus_Kev, on Flickr

[Stanley]

I hit a funny problem yesterday when I used my old Nikon Coolscan to digitise some slides. The Coolscan is old and slow but built like a battleship, I have no doubt it will last longer than me!
However, after scanning about 15 slides and transferring the files to the Flying Machine I found that Gimp didn't recognise the scans. After a bit of thought I went back upstairs and tried opening them using Pshop on the old IBM. They opened so I re-saved them as .tif format and tried them on the FM again. Gimp opened them OK. Looking back I think I know where I went wrong. It's so long since I used the Coolscan I had to reset it again and in the process was asked to choose the JPEG format. I chose JPG (exif) because that was the only one I recognised and evidently it was the wrong one! I didn't realise there was more than one JPG format. I post this in case it triggers anyone to tell me which one I should have used and perhaps it might answer a puzzle for somebody else.

[Big Kev]

I hit a funny problem yesterday when I used my old Nikon Coolscan to digitise some slides. The Coolscan is old and slow but built like a battleship, I have no doubt it will last longer than me!
However, after scanning about 15 slides and transferring the files to the Flying Machine I found that Gimp didn't recognise the scans. After a bit of thought I went back upstairs and tried opening them using Pshop on the old IBM. They opened so I re-saved them as .tif format and tried them on the FM again. Gimp opened them OK. Looking back I think I know where I went wrong. It's so long since I used the Coolscan I had to reset it again and in the process was asked to choose the JPEG format. I chose JPG (exif) because that was the only one I recognised and evidently it was the wrong one! I didn't realise there was more than one JPG format. I post this in case it triggers anyone to tell me which one I should have used and perhaps it might answer a puzzle for somebody else.

Is there a JPG (Old Style) option? Personally I would save them as TIFF files in the scanner, when a JPG is created a lot of the image data is lost as it compresses the file. Once you have them in GIMP you can do whatever you need to do, save as a JPEG, and then if you need the space, delete the TIFF.

[Tizer]

My Gimp opens jpg (exif) and they can have either .jpg or .jpeg file extensions, both work. My digital photos are jpg (exif). Copy one of your image files to your Home folder (lets say it's called scg.jpg), then open Terminal and type:
file scg.jpg
and hit Return.
Terminal will then output the file type for you, which gives a check that it's what you think it is.

[Stanley]

Thanks for the advice lads. I shan't bother investigating it any further but will probably rescan all the slides as .tif because they'll be better images. Must find some time!

[Tizer]

Just don't forget Kev's comment about making JPEG versions then deleting the TIFFs to save space - TIFF files are BIG! It's not just a case of taking up more space on your hard disk, TIFFs are slower to open due to their size and that's a bind if you access the images frequently. If you include folders of TIFFs in your backups it will make the backing up time longer. If you want to keep the TIFFs as well as the JPEGs it might be better to put the TIFFs onto DVD as a masters and have the JPEGs for routine viewing.

[GlasgowPhotographer]

Its really amazing going back to use DSLRs even from only a few years back. everything seems so small and plastic. I loved my old fuji s2 and s3, but would never dream of using it for a job though, not even a back-up. Bizarly, my fuji S5 has still better colour and white balance than my D4

Glasgow wedding photographers

[Stanley]

GP, welcome to the site but I'm afraid your post went over my head, not familiar with the cameras.
Tiz, no problems with space, all my data is on a 1tb drive and it has 800gb free space. I don't see any slowing down accessing 7mb tifs, something to do with the speed of the FM2 and perhaps the 8gb of memory. I'm sure there are faster CPUs now but this quad chip seems to be able to do the job. Just looked in the diagnostics and all the components are running at below 25C so they are only ticking over. One thing I found out by accident one day, I inadvertently typed jpg into the search on Gthumb and it started to read over 25,000 images. Just for a laugh I let it carry on, didn't time it but in about 3 minutes it threw them all up as thumbnails. I was impressed and haven't done it since. When Pluggy was playing with it when he installed Ubuntu for me even he was impressed! (You're right, smug bastard!)
Just think what FM3 will be like.... I suspect we'll be on Petabyte drives by then.....

[Whyperion]

Anyone got any idea for photo software where I can add when taken and what the subject primary and secondary items are. I was tasked to take a few ( about 60 at a guess ) photos of Barnoldswick and Earby etc areas and want to put them in High Res and Lo Res on a CD / DVD that the library/s could have if they wanted them but ideally want to put my own notes on them. I would upload them here but with the cameras I was using and the (relatively ) boring subject matter , I don't think they are worth using the server space.

[Big Kev]

Anyone got any idea for photo software where I can add when taken and what the subject primary and secondary items are. I was tasked to take a few ( about 60 at a guess ) photos of Barnoldswick and Earby etc areas and want to put them in High Res and Lo Res on a CD / DVD that the library/s could have if they wanted them but ideally want to put my own notes on them. I would upload them here but with the cameras I was using and the (relatively ) boring subject matter , I don't think they are worth using the server space.

Try this http://getgimp.com/lp/index.php?pk=4769. You should be able to add a new layer to your images and add any text on that.

[Big Kev]

A friend of mine has opened a fruit & veg department in his shop. He asked me to take a few pics for posters and flyers, an interesting job as it was a mix of fluorescent and natural light. I thought the resulting images were pretty good...

Pumpkin Fruit & Veg Dept by Olympus_Kev, on Flickr
There are more on my Flickr page.

[hartley353]

Nice Image kev, they look grand, proper presentation from a caring sole trader.