Shot April with a Canon 10D, post processed with HDR EFex and Silver Efex Pro II. Old bottle new win, something like that. The 10D pressed into service after the 5D Mk II and 7D battery fiasco. Anyway a two shot HD at Carrie Furnace in Rankin. Was a three shot attempt but the bright one is blurred was at 1/6 of a second. ISO 800, f2.8 with 70 - 200 IS @ 70mm.
No sense complaining about the equipment fiasco. I like a lot of the Carrie Furnace shots.
Canon 10D, 70-200 f/2.8 IS, f/2.8, 70mm, ISO 800, bracketed off 1/3200. Three shot, Slight (low opacity) Midnight filter application plus some Topaz Adjust and Nik Glamor Glow.
Canon 10D, 70-200 f/2.8 IS, f/2.8, 70mm, ISO 800, bracketed off 1/1250. Three shot, Slight (low opacity) Midnight filter application plus some Topaz Adjust.
Lots of post processing in a not all that sucessfull attempt to make up for a not very technically good snap.
Canon 10D, 70-200 f/2.8 IS, f/2.8, 80mm, ISO 800, bracketed off 1/80. Two shots HDR.
just to keep the blog items for getting too lengthy, see the prior two blog posts for the story. The furnaces are going is going to require another trip in the fall, to make up for the battery fiasco. That visit will have a different strategy, since the tour is not really a tour and tripods are OK, I'll bring the Gitzo and a rented 17 TS-E. This place needs wide, really wide.
Oh yeah, I forgot, I thought I had packed the 17-40 f/4.0L when I got there it turns out I packed the 35 f/1.4L — really clueless morning. Anyway, fast but not really wide, especially on a crop camera like the 10D. Although I guess I could have put it on the 10D, gotten a 50mm equivalent and dropped the ISO. DOF would likely been an issue and frankly given the grittiness of the furnaces the high ISO noise isn't much of a problem.
Yet, I am not unhappy with yesterdays snaps. Thanks to being lucky with the XZ-1 being in the bag, with power and with a card and an old 10D. What could have been nothing but a nine hour drive worked out OK.
Canon 10D, 70-200 f/2.8 IS, f/2.8, 75mm, ISO 800, bracketed off 1/640. Two shots, no way I am good enough to handhold the over exposure steady. Slight (low opacity) Midnight filter application.
Canon 10D, 70-200 f/2.8 IS, f/2.8, 75mm, ISO 800, bracketed 1/30 and 1/90. As above only two shot. Again slight (low opacity) Midnight filter application.
Canon 10D, 24-70 f/2.8, f/8, 24mm, ISO 400, single shot. Slight (low opacity) Midnight filter application, Topaz adjust, plus the regular stuff.
Read the post just below this, if you already haven't, to hear the reason for the XZ-1 at the Carrie Furnaces. All taken with the EVF and the new productivity enhancing lens cap. Anyway didn't know what to expect under really tough conditions. I think these are stunning snaps — digital cameras have come a long way with these kind of results from a compact, albeit an enthusiast compact.
So what doesn't work so well? Dynamic range. While DSLRs can recover lots of highlights, large sensor compacts cannot, in these dark shots any sunlight coming directly in is completely blown out. Even the passé 10D has a little bit of latitude for highlight recovery. Solution... make sure the framing is is accomplished to reduce the required demand on dynamic rage. The supply just isn't there.
XZ-1, f/2.2, ISO 640, 1/50, 18.2mm (what ever that means). Standard one-shot processing.
XZ-1, f/2.2, ISO 640, 1/50, 18.2mm (what ever that means). Midnight filter in Color Efex 3.
XZ-1, f/2.0, ISO 640, 1/30, 11.8mm (what ever that means). Standard one-shot processing.
XZ-1, f/2.0, ISO 640, 1/50, 6mm (what ever that means). Standard one-shot processing.
XZ-1, f/2.0, ISO 640, 1/25, 6mm (what ever that means). Standard one-shot processing.
or actually no juice and a severe lack of MIPs too!. Twelve hour round trip to the Rivers of Steel "Hardhat" "Tour" of the Carrie Furnaces in Rankin, PA. Not really a tour (good), no hardhats for the touristas (not an issue) and no batteries for the MIPless snapper. Yep, 4+ hours out there, get all strapped up, cameras hooked up, hit the on switch switch and nothing, absolutely nothing, perhaps because the batteries were 4+ hours away in Charm City. Serious MIP shortage.
I did manage to toss the XZ-1 in the bag and it had power and a backup and fellow snapper (who did the driving) had a backup body, a rather long in the tooth, 10D (ca 2003). So I guess we shall see what trumps what, equipment or the artiste. 10D high noise at high ISO (800 for the indoors shots) might present some challenges, it was dark inside the furnaces. I suspect most of these will wind up in B&W.
I can see why Tim rarely uses the handmedown 10D anymore. It is slow, really slow and the buffer even fills up writing RAWS to a fast card after a couple of fast bracketed shots. Five years is a long time in camera technology.
Three shot bracket, 10D, 70-20 f/2.8 IS, ISO 800, f/2.8, bracketed off 1/125 @ 70mm. HDR Efex & Silver Efex Pro 2.
Three shot bracket, 10D, 70-20 f/2.8 IS, ISO 800, f/2.8, bracketed off 1/30 @ 70mm — saved by IS. HDR Efex. Looks like some color might work.
No HDR here, just one shot with 10D, 70-20 f/2.8 IS, ISO 800, f/2.8, bracketed off 1/15 @ 70mm. Hit with Color Efex Midnight Filter.
Three shot bracket, 10D, 70-20 f/2.8 IS, ISO 100, f/2.8, bracketed off 1/2000 @ 70mm. HDR Efex. No problem outside at all.
Single shot, ISO set wrong at 3200 from prior indoor shot. Actually looks pretty good with high ISO in decent light. 24-70 f/2.8L @ 24mm, 1/500.
