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05-JUN-2005 Traveller

The Uneasy Sleep of Johnny Ramone *

Canon EOS 350D
1/60s f/4.5 at 33.0mm iso200 hide exif
Full EXIF Info
Date/Time05-Jun-2005 20:01:47
MakeCanon
ModelCanon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length33 mm
Exposure Time1/60 sec
Aperturef/4.5
ISO Equivalent200
Exposure Bias
White Balance (-1)
Metering Modematrix (5)
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Programmanual (4)
Focus Distance

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CameraShy0913-Jun-2005 02:13
Thanks for the tutorial. I really am very new to photography. Still in the Oops-forgot-to-check-the-ISO stage. This forum and kind people like you have been a great help to me. Thanks for sharing.
Mikel Featherston12-Jun-2005 19:00
Now Traveller,

Everyone has something to teach you, and everyone has sometiing they can learn from you.
Canon DSLR Challenge12-Jun-2005 11:04
Dearest Shy:

The only thing that made this a difficult capiture was that I was lazy, the event of a movie in a cementery had already been shot, the real movie was starting and I couldn't be bothered by actually fliping up the flash, fitting on a flash, which I didn't have with me in any event, that I couldn't realize that an asa of over 200 my be appropriate, or failing that, that exposure compensation was available...and lastly, simce the subject was black, that the meter might mis-read what was there in any event.

Shy, there probably isn't a thing in the world I could teach you about photography, but since you were polite enought to ask, what is interesting is how very little there was to work with:



http://www.pbase.com/nickf/image/44625539

The technique for saving a botched jpeg image is pretty standard, (I think). First, because you're going to do a lot to it, save as a Tiff, then mode 16 bits, curves once to get close to some kind of relatively decent exposure, de-saturate only enough to leave some color to be picked up in a replace color eye-dropper, repalce the green with a heavy blue, fiddle some more until you get a new eye-dropper readaing and saturate that until the yellow green turns red, and....voila`...one very odd picture, just what I wanted....lol

I should add that my secretary strongly prefers the full frame version. She has a much better eye than I for this stuff.



Best Wishes,

Traveller
CameraShy0910-Jun-2005 13:23
Well done. Good work with what must have been a very difficult capture. Would you mind sharing your processing method?