Zach Matthews
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Solid shots, too, Ian – yours or Taylor’s? Who post-processed them? The top one is slow enough that I know someone brought the reds back up, because exposures that long in the Park go green. Good job both of you. Your color saturation is excellent on the second and third as well. None of the brookies I caught had that degree of separation between the colors; they were muddier looking. Given that the watersheds are actually cut off from each other, I wonder if we were catching separate strains within a mile of each other?
Hans said the Deep Creek trail requires a “two to three mile hike before you even see fishable water.” So much for reliable maps, eh?
You did right to go in early – Hans said there were ten anglers fishing behind him when we turned around, and I had covered about two miles of water at that point without seeing anyone. That’s what I got for going downstream; a nice hike. I also jumped a couple grouse – I hike quiet when alone.
Here’s the same fish shot from the side; notice how the yellow sub-spots on the side are less defined, and how it seems to lack the dual colors of the belly (although you can’t see completely underneath).
Hey Pancho –
I’d get the G2 and here’s why: both rods will handle the tasks you need them to with no problems.
Here’s an engineer’s explanation of why the Nikon approach might be better with respect to noise (warning, it is almost unreadably dense):
http://www.danblanton.com/viewmessage.php?id=63562
Zach
Oh, and her parents are Brad and Renee Holt; the Holt and Holt Real Estate office on the old way into town from 412 is her grandparents’ office.
Zach
Hey Richard –
I am using Photoshop CS2 to convert. Usually I just drag in the files to an archive hard drive, then import them into Adobe’s Lightroom Beta program, then scan through them and drag them into Photoshop, where I adjust exposure and eventually save in JPEG.
My calculations on the D70 are that at 3000×2008 output you only have 10-inches across on a long side. I published a full page shot in the current issue of American Angler (Ed Engle’s article, facing page, misattributed to my wife, Lauren), that was 11.5 inches on a long side. Just to get that full page you are already blowing up the image from 6 2/3″ on the short side to 8 1/2″, so we’re talking about more than a 100% enlargement for the two pager. (Although I could certainly do it with a panorama if I had time to set it all up).
However your statement that you’ve sold the D2x images in two pages gives me hope, since at 12 megapixels you’re seeing at least a 25% enlargement even with that excellent camera. (Hmm, wait, on second reading, do I have that right, or are you also limited to one full page as yet?)
This is as much a problem of convincing my editors that we can break the 300dpi barrier as anything, I expect, and I also know they have good reasons for wanting to keep it as close as possible to that 300 dpi level. This is why I hope the D3(X, H, whatever) will at least carry 16MP. That would be two pages at 300dpi out of camera with room for cropping if you needed to with a minor enlargement and a ton of room to crop into a one full page image.
Zach