Vanda Pure's Wax

[pavel]

I found that film (egads, what is that?!) does a MUCH better job of capturing colors accurately. Digital cameras are improving but still have their issues.

[catttan]

I found that film (egads, what is that?!) does a MUCH better job of capturing colors accurately. Digital cameras are improving but still have their issues.

I agree with you, Pavel re film ( BTW I still have a few rolls of negative colour film and slides in the freezer ). Yes digital cameras are improving but still unable to cope properly with the UV end of the colour spectrum. My youngest son was home for the weekend and we compared shots of V Pure's Wax using his latest Nikon D7000 against those taken with my Nikon D70 and D200. There was a slight improvement in colour rendition but still far from satisfactory.

[mauraec]

I agree with you, Pavel re film ( BTW I still have a few rolls of negative colour film and slides in the freezer ). Yes digital cameras are improving but still unable to cope properly with the UV end of the colour spectrum. My youngest son was home for the weekend and we compared shots of V Pure's Wax using his latest Nikon D7000 against those taken with my Nikon D70 and D200. There was a slight improvement in colour rendition but still far from satisfactory.

I can believe it. And Phillip and I get different results between his D200 and my D80 and the Canon G11s. Then, if you want tp print it, you have to deal with the color disparities depending on your printer. Can be very frustrating to see how far from what you're looking at a print can be, Saving up for an Epson....

[catttan]

I can believe it. And Phillip and I get different results between his D200 and my D80 and the Canon G11s. Then, if you want tp print it, you have to deal with the color disparities depending on your printer. Can be very frustrating to see how far from what you're looking at a print can be, Saving up for an Epson....

This particular picture was taken with my D70. I don't know how long since I have printed a photo and my Epson is all clogged up and next to useless. I find the printing inks too expensive to justify printing my own pictures. Now and then I do send a few to print at a professional outlet and since the proprietor is a friend, I get to sit in with him while he prints and usually get the print I want with a bit of input from me.

Re the different colour rendition from the digital cameras I agree completely with you and Philip. A friend has suggested shooting in RAW and tweak in Photoshop but since I'm Photoshop illiterate, that doesn't help much. BTW I use Aperture for my pictures (only installed in January ) and just feeling my way around.

How's Phillip - miss his posts! Please convey my best regards to him.

[Phillip C]

How's Phillip - miss his posts! Please convey my best regards to him.

Hello Yew, my regards to you as well. I have been keeping up with your posts through Maura. I find all digital camera's to struggle with colors like magenta and certain blues, especially if they lean toward purple. The white balance is one thing to monkey around with, but I have not had very good results from that either. Once again, this makes me long for the old film days. Kodachrome 25 would handle those colors with its eyes closed. Alas, the digital age is here to stay and having your own darkroom on your laptop is pretty cool, as is taking tons of photos without having to pay development costs. I do find that I get better colors with those that are troublesome with changes in the light source and using different lens has an effect. I get much sharper, truer colors with a 60mm f2.8 Micro, especially with the f stop closed down about half way.. I usually use a tripod so I can shoot is lower light at more open apertures.

I too use Aperture as my processor and am feeling my way around with it as well. I am currently researching plug ins for HDR work in black and white. I've seen HDR used with b + w and the result is truly awesome, not garish or over worked as I find most color HDR to be. I am afraid I am too old to begin to learn Photshop, not sure I have THAT many years left. I am 52 after all and Photoshop, well...

Nice to post again. I don't currently have anything blooming to post and am such a rookie at growing orchids that I usually have nothing to add to most posts.

Take care,

Phillip

[Dorsetman]

Now I have a Fuji "super-zoom" (Finepix SX200 EXR ) which I use as a holiday camera - can't carry all that heavy Nikon kit nowadays - which has a button which I can press and it will take three successive exposures, each adjusted by the software in the camera so that one has the same range of colours as if it were shot on Fuji Provia, the next on Fuji Velvia and the next on Fuji Astia ( I'll ignore the sepia and b and w ! ). I must try that out on my blue Vandas.
Velvia btw is the one with high contrast high saturation - as used by landscape photographers to get some life into pictures which otherwise would be flat green scenes.