Cruise Moab 2011 Pictures

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Same spot - couple more trucks
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No problem, but in that case I request a better passenger seat. :)

Then again, Golden Spike on a 39 year old spring mattress is actually quite the experience :bounce2:
 
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Great shots - so many are "screen saver" worthy!

It only had to be that much more spectacular in person since film loses alot in translation...beautiful!
 
Tools R Us said:
Good pix!:cool: ...
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Glad you like them :).

Kevin and I had a discussion in previous years about my pics having a lot of strong color :eek:. My argument is that I try to match up my camera with what I see (and remember) on those runs, and with my computer screen; keep in mind that I usually wear sunglasses... and I don't want to do a lot of work in Photoshop afterwards ;) - so I try and set things on the camera itself.

I thought I bring this up light of the fact that I see a fair amount of posted pics that look "washed-out" to me; so here goes: Nikon ColorSpace set to 'Vivid', Saturation +1; Sharpness +1; JPEG; shots taken at -0.7 stops underexposed; f8 all day.

Pics are resized to 600 pixels wide, receive a slight 'Unsharp Mask' correction in Photoshop, gamma correction where needed, and are saved from Photoshop. The last step is to avoid the IH8MUD image downsampling that occurs when a jpg file is too large; that usually doesn't retain a lot of image quality. Anyways, just thought I'd mention this. Cameras are quite different in their color reproduction (e.g. my old Sony compared to Claudia's current one...), so results will vary. But this is my story, and I'm sticking to it. :p
 
I think the "washed out" describes my pictures best. The cheap camera shows... well... that I have a cheap camera :meh:
 
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...The cheap camera shows....
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That really wasn't on my mind when I brought this up. I'm suggesting that there may be a few camera settings that one can tweak and take advantage. That, and I think a big pic quality issue is the IH8MUD built-in downsampling when the originally submitted file exceeds the size limits for jpeg.
 
That "washed" out look is what I first seen when I looked at all of our pictures. Some are really bad but others are good. Same camera and same settings. The before and after look after changing sizes still looks the same. Melissa was asking around while we were in Moab trying to find out what kind of camera she wants to get next :rolleyes:
 
By the way, I wasn't specifically referring to your pics, or to pics only in this thread. And I'm not trying to make anyone feel bad about their camera, or their pix.

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...Melissa was asking around while we were in Moab trying to find out what kind of camera she wants to get next :rolleyes:
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How much $$$($) :) ?

For the recent trip to Salzburg, Austria, I actually tried to purchase the cheapest camera I could find and see what that would do. I ended up one step above that with a $29.99 thingamajig from Walgreens. Those pix are not just bad, they're so bad it makes them actually awesomely bad :). I would be surprised if there were a single piece of glass (aka lens...) in that thing.
 
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