WMU Game 1 Photos are up, and...

[Will]

Erica wrote:

What about those of us who don't have Flash? The problem with working for the DoD is that you can't just download any program on to your work computer. So basically I just have to look at the fingerprints?

Don't take this the wrong way, but...should you really be looking at Cornell hockey pictures at work, especially if it's at the DoD of all places?

[Chris Moberg]

[Q]Cowbell Guy

I've been meaning to ask you about that. Noticed things of interest in your e-mail sig. [/Q]

My domain, ACTVIDEO (Applied Computer Techniques in Video), is indicative of my profession as a software developer for the video industry. Although for a number of years I did operate a video production business in the Washington DC area.

Photography is more of a hobby than an avocation. I shoot with a Canon D60 at 3072x2048 36 bit raw.  I have the benefit of shooting in better lit environments than you and often work with simulated ISO of 100 or 200.  The D60 gets pretty noisy at high gain/ISO (this is one of the things that separates is from a high end pro camera)

Are you using Photoshop for Color Correction and noise reduction?  Any specific plug-ins?  I am curious that some of your shots seem to have more color balance aberration than others. Does the light in Lynah vary that much in color temperature?

Chris

P.S. Beth and I watched your camera gear in Providence last year

[Ben Rocky \'04]

Yea, shouldn't you be hunting terrorists or placing bets on the terrorism futures market instead ? :-P

[CowbellGuy]

I was mostly reffering to the vintagesaab.com bit Here ya go...

http://elynah.com/pictures/misc/DSC_7016.jpg

I'll take shooting racing in good light over dark rinks any day, but you gotta do something in the winter, right?

I'm shooting with a D100 at the moment, but the new D2H has given me serious pause for thought. D100 seems to have a bit less noise at high ISO than the D60, but the D60's slow exposure noise reduction is outstanding. Wouldn't work for hockey though.

The new lights in Lynah, while brighter, suck balls. They do some low-frequency phasing thing that is apparently invisible to the human eye, but quite the opposite at faster shutter speeds. You can take the same shot with the same opening at the same speed pointed at the same spot on the ice 3 times, and you'll get completely different results in each shot:



Anyway, for RAW images, I've tried everything out there, and for workflow, especially when dealing with lots of files, nothing beat the Photoshop RAW plugin in PS7, which is built-in and much better in PS8. Separate luminance smoothing and color noise reduction. Quite nice. It seems the Photoshop 8 upgrade was geared toward digital photography.

[Chris Moberg]

Ah, vintagesaab.com is my other "persona".  I have affection, some might say an affliction, for the old Saab V4 (in particular the Sonett). That's a nice shot of Randy Cook in his Sonett V4.  He campaigns it under Vintage Saab Racing Group (http://www.vintagesaab.com/vsrg)  I am a member of that team too, but most of my effort is directed to Vintage Saab Motorsports (as driver and builder)

In the years, 1977-1985 I drove around Ithaca in a orange/red 1973 Sonett.

That is a nasty lighting problem.  I would be interested to see some larger images, it might be possible to write a Photshop plug-in to target that type of noise.

Chris

[Chris Moberg]

Oops screwed up that link

Vintage Saab Racing Group at  http://www.vintagesaab.com/vsrg

I shoot a bunch of Autocross and some Club/Pro Rally.

http://www.vintagesaab.com/sonett/temp/pontiac.jpg

My A/X car, Yellow Thunder

http://www.vintagesaab.com/sonett/temp/yellowthunder.jpg

(that image was shot by Tim Shelmer with a Canon 1D)

I think I will leave the camera behind when we (Beth and I) head out to Ithaca Dec 5-7.  That light looks impossible and I am sure to enjoy the games more if I am actively watching and cheering.

Chris

[Erica]

It's hard to explain,  and if I could explain I wouldn't be allowed to, but I can kind of do both at the same time.  ::nut::

[marty]

Age,

Thanks for using the tan eLynah.com as opposed to the blue watermark on the motorsports shots.

[marty]

Erica wrote:

It's hard to explain,  and if I could explain I wouldn't be allowed to, but I can kind of do both at the same time.  ::nut::

So if you told us you'd have to kill us? ;-)