S2: Low res, but cooking!

[surfworx]

Greetings,

Check out my website, lots of S2 pics now.
Football.

Surfing.

The Zoo.

www.surfworx.com.au

Cheers for any critique,

Derrick:cool:

[memobug]

What did you use to resize and process these? They look really flat for some reason, almost like TV screengrabs

There is a huge amount of diagonal banding in this shot (goes right through the fur and the background, from the southwest to northeast corner /

http://www.surfworx.com.au/MainPage/NewImages/Sept17Zoo/images/ZooSept17%20(29)_JPG.jpg

Maybe you can see it?

Were they really underexposed? Trying to understand it! Maybe the cage??

I think you would get much better color saturation on the baboon above with a polarizer

Regards,

Matt

[surfworx]

Thanks for the reply,

however I'm a bit lost.

I'm not sure what you mean by horizontal banding. The image has been merely resized, not cropped, to display here, in JPEG form. To me, the pic looks okay, so I'm not altogether sure what you mean. Its straight out of the camera, no Photoshopping.

I'm not sure about underexposure, I think to expose anymore may perhaps have blown out the animals nose? I might try flash fill more, but it seems to chew up the CR123's - and the lens, Sigma's 50-500 is'nt the best flash lens - its big. There was no cage to contend with, but I will admit I hand held all the shots. Its a heavy lens, but I'd rather learn to shoot unassisted than shoot only with a tripod.

I've on order a polarizing filter, but as my lens is size 86, its not the most common size, and its on order. I'm really lookin forward to using it quite a bit in landscape/surfing shots.

I don't profess to be a pro-shooter, but I'm happy, very happy, with the S2. Until it is available in Australia, a 1MB Microdrive, then I'm stuck with mostly low-res shooting and JPEG's.

Regards,

Derrick


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[SSonnentag]

memobug, I think what you are calling banding is the actual hair color of this creature. The hair is either wavy or alternates between light and dark as it grows, making it appear as though there is some sort of artifact in the photo. I've seen this on other animal hair. It's there in real life too, not just on the photo.

Shawn

[surfworx]

Yes, indeed it was his hair, it was pretty frizzy and funny looking. Without going crazy, here's another view.

Derrick

www.surfworx.com.au

[memobug]

nah, it was a different picture. Surfworx, I said diagonal, not horizontal banding. Anyway, I think the "banding" was actually the fence because it runs through the creature and the background, too, diagonally, creating points of high and low contrast. Were you shooting thru a fence on this picture?:

http://www.surfworx.com.au/MainPage/NewImages/Sept17Zoo/images/ZooSept17%20(29)_JPG.jpg

Sorry I don't want to attach your picture to my post!

SSonnen, any chance you can turn on [img] tags so they display?

Regards,

Matt

[surfworx]

Yeah it was indeed the fence. Last time I tried to cut a tiny Size 86 hole for the lens, the Zoo staff went "ape".
Sorry for the pun, thanks for the feedback!

Derrick

[teski]

Hey Surfworx -

Why not buy Ridata 512MB CF cards from Vasa at http://www.powerinnumbers.com.au since their local to you there and have great customer service. I personally have one and it is really fast in the S2. I trust CF much more than Microdrive, but that's my opinion.

Teski

[surfworx]

Thanks for the tip, I kinda had to trade off with the memory card.
I had ordered a SanDisk 512, as I use a 256 SanDisk, and its been fine.
My supplier just rang, said he can get me a 1GB Microdrive, for only $180 more. Thats double the memory, something too good to refuse.

Thanks for the tips, I'll let you know how I fare with the new memory card, it arrives tomorrow.

Derrick

www.surfworx.com.au

[teski]

Very cool! Let us know how it goes. BTW....Been loving your surf pics. I'm going to try and get my wife an I to Australia for the first time in the next year or so.

Teski