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kollin bliss | profile | all galleries >> Travels, Places, and Seasons >> Iceland, March 2003 >> iceland10d tree view | thumbnails | slideshow
sample pics shot in iceland with new canon 10D. camera arrived literally 5 mins before we were out the door!

i unpacked it, and carefully put it into a plastic bag and a canvas sack and put it in my backpack. charged the battery at the airport. then, due to the fact we were so on the go, and the weather being inclement, the times I did use it, I used it either on full auto, program mode, and Av mode. Also had to shoot through dirty windows at times or from a moving car. :)

Changed various exposure parameters, and in-camera processing -- boosting contrast and saturation a day into the trip, playing with iso. i left white balance on auto (AWB).

'a_ ' pics are iso 100, 'e_' are iso 800. my feeling was that i was satisfied with the outdoor AWB, but the indoor AWB was poor, with a heavy orange-yellow color cast. in the pics in this gallery, i manually added blue in 'Levels' to refresh appeal. All of the images have had carious color channels tweaked to restore subjective esthetic quality, except for the 100% shot of the water, which is out of camera. Still playing with the potential of custom white balance (see the other 10D galleries and test shots a level up). Decent results for an inexpensive lens, but will have to expend more money to get close to e-10's optical sharpness.
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a_001_iso1600verydarkroom.jpg
a_001_iso1600verydarkroom.jpg
a002a towards the high mountains outside of reykjavik
a002a towards the high mountains outside of reykjavik
a002b these kind of signs are all over iceland :)
a002b these kind of signs are all over iceland :)
a002c after the mountain pass looking down towards coastal lowlands
a002c after the mountain pass looking down towards coastal lowlands
a004 an abandoned concrete bunker on the shore
a004 an abandoned concrete bunker on the shore
a004 explaining that the next land south of this point will be antarctica
a004 explaining that the next land south of this point will be antarctica
a004 DoF test on the pilings
a004 DoF test on the pilings
a_003 first sight of volcanic steam - farm buildings
a_003 first sight of volcanic steam - farm buildings
a_005 a beach where we were nearly stuck in deep sand
a_005 a beach where we were nearly stuck in deep sand
e100 out the window of the loftleider towards highest point in downtown reykj.
e100 out the window of the loftleider towards highest point in downtown reykj.
e101_perlan_outside1_lo.jpg
e101_perlan_outside1_lo.jpg
e102_candlecolorwall.jpg - wb majorly fixed in PS
e102_candlecolorwall.jpg - wb majorly fixed in PS
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