Nikon User Thread

[cheezweezl]

WOW... Really cheap D50!

I bought a lens from someone on Ebay and it arrived shattered and just dead... I was pissed but they refunded my money so pretty much I have $69 and was bumming around Overstock.com looking at stuff and found this. $459 for the body only D50. That is really cheap seeing as how... well I don't want to think about it.

Just thought this would be the right place to post it.

-Jeremy

that is cheap, although a refurb. ritz/wolf has a deal thru saturday that is the d50 body + a 28-80 nikon lens for $599 that also includes a $50 gift card, a ritz tedddy bear (for your kid), 18 credits for photography classes (for your wife), some printer paper, credits toward processing, etc.

i got mine yesterday.

[Rick Meyer]

that is cheap, although a refurb.

Good eye. I didn't even see that. I am very leery of refurbs. But, that is still an excellent price.

[Chris Messineo]

Nik,

I love the CC you did on the kitten photo. Really fantastic.

Chris

[Jeremy Ordan]

Well for this I wish I had a good macro lens because it was shot on the Nikkor 70-210mm zoom lens. This is a really slow lens with a minimum focus distance of about 5.6'.

There is something about flowers that I like in photos. In life I step on them, pull leaves off, and in general don't pay much attention to them at all. In photos though there is something about an image of a beautiful flower that really grabs me

I was leaving the park and saw this... I don't know... Sunflower? It was just really nice and I tried to get in as close as possible. You can see the really shallow DOF in the original, and that was something I couldn't clean up in Photoshop.

My treatment was all levels, curves, and a slight +3 on the hue. I sharpened using the Unsharp mask with a 200%, 1 pixel, and tolerance of 1. I think the image looks good, just a bit soft around the petals.

Original


Corrected



Comment's, critiques, death threats welcome

-Jeremy

[Blaine]

It really pops off the page for me...good job.

[Jeremy Ordan]

OK... I wanted to do one more... To begin with I am going to show the original image and then the corrected image and then what in the world I actually did.



Shot on the 17mm end of the stock lens. I saw a tree reflected in this nasty muddy water and just couldn't resist. I don't know if it was the memory of that Forrest Gump running along with the mountain reflected or what, but I needed to snap this photo. I had to get low enough and wide enough to get the whole image in frame.

For the correction I really went crazy on levels, curves, selective color, hue, contrast, and what not. Ultimately the levels got so insane that I decided to just crop the reflection in the water, rotate 180 degrees and use just the cropped selection for the final image. I sharpened and here it is. I sort of like it and think it is calming.



The reason I wanted to share this was because I think that I am so used to shooting with the DVX that I try to get the right framing immediately and never think to select just part of the image as having more weight than the whole image.

I know it isn't a big step forward in general for my photography, but at least in seeing things differently in the digital darkroom this image represents, to me at least, a nice step forward.

-Jeremy

[Blaine]

On this one, it's hard to tell by the colors that it's a reflection. The ripple in the water give it away, though. I think I'd like to see the water a slightly more natural color.

[Jeremy Ordan]

On this one, it's hard to tell by the colors that it's a reflection. The ripple in the water give it away, though. I think I'd like to see the water a slightly more natural color.

I agree... I just don't know how to do that Thanks for the feedback, Blaine, now if you could only teach me how to do that

-Jeremy

[Blaine]

I agree... I just don't know how to do that Thanks for the feedback, Blaine, now if you could only teach me how to do that

-Jeremy

Yeah, I wish... then we could both do it...

[J.R. Hudson]

THat rules Yank

That should be your company for filmmaking !

Call it:

Yankee Films

And a daisy for the Logo