Early night for me !!!

6.30 am train from Plymouth for Focus @ NEC.

Going to look at Gitzo tripods,gimball & ballheads.

Looking for a decent point & shoot, for the better half (possibly a Panasonic GF-1) & alternatives to Epson paper & ink  (Photospeed recommended by Tony Worobiec).

Not forgetting to take in the Canon & Adobe stands 

Should be a good day out.

Cheers  -  Terry

Lol - nope none of that stuff ;-)

Although managed to pick up 2-3 (very) big things on my want list over the last week means that I'm literally looking for new FB papers to see if anything jumps out above Gold Fibre Slk, see if there are any frame deals (I suspect I'll be placing a well timed order from one of my regular suppliers with a 25% discount - to cover my petrol ;-) ), and to catch up with some people, including of course your good self.....

Mike

Thanks also from me Dave, it did the trick.

Robbie

Tuesday hopefully but not confirmed..... been the last two years and said hi to Dave but got a bit of a blank look......  too many faces in a short space of time me thinks   ..  lol

If I do go will pop by and say hi again ;-)

Cheers Dave, what I want to do is adjust the levels a very small amount and then sharpen. When I did these exposures the other night, I set the shutter speed to 30s and had my lens wide open. I then had the the drive mode to high speed cont' and locked the release - all for ease of use really. It turned out that 30s wasn't enough, but during the exposures the northern lights gave a brief show which is why I want to perservere with it, I'll see if I can do it the way you sugest if not I'll have to do each one in turn     Many thanks.

Robbie

Robbie,

You can use DPP to adjust JPEGs - as long as it is minimal. These adjustments can then be applied to other images. So you ould adjust one, then apply the same adjustment to all the others if you wanted to.

Open and image, make some changes using the RGB tab. Close out to thumbnail view. Select the iamge you've adjusted, choose edit>copy recipe to clipboard. Select all other iamges, choose edit>paste recipe to selected image. Confirm you want to adjust all images. Done.

Dave

You can convert from raw to jpg and resize as a batch process in DPP, then make a script to do levels and sharpening to do the batch process in photoshop.

Hi Steve, cheers. I was aware that DPP was primarily for raw but was just wondering. I was trying to avoid doing them in raw due to the number of exposures nessarcery - to give you some idea, 136 frames of 30 seconds each exposure will create about 8 seconds of star trail 'movie'. I may try some 'in camera' sharpening to see how it turns out.

Cheers .   Robbie

Thanks both,

I have added the caption field at the bottom of each Travel photo so it now gives the location.

I am now choosing the photos for the bigger travel website - that should be live next weekend. Would welcome your feedback on that one as well.

Thanks and have a good weekend

Michael H

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Can anyone one tell me whether I can batch process some jpegs (at least 250) using DPP or Paintshop, as I need to  tweak a bit in levels and also sharpen. I don't want have do each one separately unless I have to, due to the time aspect. The images are part of some star trails I've been doing which are then stacked using the Startrails app'. If they are put together as one image, then its no problem to do a certain amount on the final file, however if they are going to be a short avi then obviously I can't do it on the final file. I know it can be done on PS but I don't have that -  nor likely to in the near future.

  Robbie

OK Dave, we are into the New Year, well and truly so:

- When will the new monthly comps start?

- Has the scoring/voting system been sorted out now? 

cheers

Steve

Good luck with the project-will be interested to find out what it is and see the results

DC

Hi Dave, thanks for that, it's not something I constantly use,  (as you know  ) however, subject to how things go over the next few months it's something I will be setting the camera too for one small project, although it will be fired by remote.

cheers

Steve

Hi Steve

I used to use the quiet mode all the time when i had the MK3-Great for fox etc that are very shy, It has no effect on shutter speed but does mean that you shoot literally in single mode, You control when the shutter comes down by your finger-a great feature that i miss-its now on the D3s which i would love but cant afford-yet

Dave

Well it's been a long time coming, but it's out now!

Collins Bird guide 2nd edition (not the hardback)

It's probably the best ID bird book out on the market and available from Amazon at a very affordable price, don't delay, just get it. it will probably be the best Bird book you will ever want or need to buy.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Collins-Bird-Guide-Lars-Svensson/dp/0007267266/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267730096&sr=1-1-spell

Steve

I have my ticket, but need to sort out a day with the 9-5 job!

Would go on the last day normally, but having just started a new role (in a new location) for the firm, it might be awkward......

;0)