Episode 535 – The tri-state tour
This week, we discuss my recent NSW roadtrip with Cath, and friends Paola and James from Sydney.
Here is a handful of images from the trip.
And here’s the finished door trim on the Fairlane, and the newly-discovered-but-needing-to-be-dipped transmission detail plate.
In 2007, I had a Canon 350D (Rebel for those in North America) which had pretty average performance in any ISO over 200 and a fairly poor tonal range.
The processing vehicle was Photoshop. This was prior to lens corrections, any form of auto HDR, there was no content aware repair tool – spot removal repairing was done mainly by cloning, all selections/maskings were done manually. Lightroom version 1 was released in January 2007 but was not generally available. There were programs like DxO that was purely a photoshop plug in for lens corrections, and Photomatix that was used as a plug in for HDR (But you had to convert from raw file first in order to use it). NIK Silver Efex was around and good for black and white conversions but many of the other NIK products were not there yet, or produced a very noisy result, which, unless you were very skilful with the crude noise reduction tools, the result often ended up being quite cartoonish. If I remember rightly it all took quite some time and the computer was littered with new files at every step.
Church 1 was the final result I would have used DXO and Photomatix to get the result, which is still soft, a bit over coloured (not the aim) and the correction has not quite worked.
For the 2022 version, I used DxO for lens correction, then in Photoshop used NIK for some detail mmm, followed by sharpening and denoising using Topaz Sharpen AI and DeNoise AI, back in Lightroom I cropped and tweaked. The lens correction is much better, the filters have more control, Topaz’s AI is very simple, no HDR was used. So for mugs like me I think it produces a more superior result in a much shorter timeframe. By the Way I don’t always put all my photos through such a process but thought it would be a fairer comparison.
Paul Sutton told us about the build-it-yourself Pikon camera (a 3D-printed interchangeable lens camera built around Raspberry Pi),
not sure why, but luxury car maker Pagani unveils a $110,000 large format camera,
Apollo moon photos painstakingly remastered in stunning high definition,
A closer look at some of Queen Elizabeth’s favorite cameras,
and this one about Steve Sasson, who invented the first digital camera.
Glynn saw that Tamron has taken their 150-500 EF lens for Sony, converted it to APS-C and slapped a Fuji mount on it to create the 225-750mm for Fuji,
Nikon has a new 17-28/2.8 lens,
some awesome star trails taken from the ISS,
which were inspired by this guy and his videos.
What do you do when you’re not allowed into the concert with your camera? You chuck the roll of film on stage, of course!
The world’s most prolific portrait photographer? Hmmm, maybe, maybe not.
Or how about your license photo being nothing but an empty chair?
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