On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:40:04 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
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Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:45:41 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

akheel wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote in
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If anyone is interested here are a few photos from my trip to Eastern
Sierra.

Most of the photo were taken within the 2 hours of sunrise and sunset.
So I took many shots making changes in the exposure and white
balance
to see how they turned out. In the past I had always used auto white
balance. Ken Rockwell suggest I play around with the the white balance
setting the Kelvin degrees manually By adjusting the white balance you
could achieve the same results photographers used to get from using
tinted filters when shooting with film.

http://outdoors.webshots.com/slideshow/568888240tlWOCk

The coffin in the window brought back memories. I used to hang in the
Eastern Sierra in the summer as a teen. Visited Bridgeport/Monolake area
several times, Bodie once. While I was in Bodie took virtually that exact
same photo (on film of course; developed in my own darkroom). Must be
something about coffins. I also liked the old gas pump. Still there?
It probably looks exactly the same way as when you were there. They
have kept the town in a state of arrested decay. They have the old fire
truck in front of two old gas pumps.

Speaking of which, Russ sent me some photos from his latest expedition
- he's got some amazing images of that same area - freaky good.

Guy has some real talent.

Yeah, he sent me some zip files of the Eastern Sierra, and he is superb,
really as good as I have seen. He needs to get a coffee table book
published. My objective was to take a few photos that came close to his
quality.

PS - You mentioned I have some problems with noise in my photos. I know
I shot a few in complete darkness, and they were noisy, but I thought
most of the ones at dawn were fairly clean. I think I have the same
problem Eisboch has, my eyes are crap.

Was there a few photos that had the most problem with noise?

A couple of them actually. I exploded the images out to look at them
and, in particular the first one, it just appears in places, like on
the right hand side, that the image is pixelated - meaning kind of
grainy.

That seems to run through the first couple and one or two of the
others.

Just an off hand comment - doesn't mean that the images are bad or
anything. Could just be processing artifact too.