Man in red

[Justin]

Another from central station yesterday.. don't like this is as much as 'man in black' but the colours and pose are nice I think

[christiand]

Hi Justin,

I've been noticing your photos - I like them.
Have you customised the settings in your D200 in any way?
Do you shoot raw and what process and software do you apply
to get the jpegs you have posted.
FYI, I shoot raw and use PS CS2.
I noticed that without incease of sharpness and saturation - using PS - the jpegs turn a little flat.

Cheers,
CD

[Nogshale]

Looks more like a woman with that handbag and hat, but its a nice shot well done

[Justin]

Hi CD, thank you!

Looking at this photo now I think I've gone a bit heavy on the saturation the lamp-post is a bit purple!

But this is my process -
- Shoot compressed raw
- custom settings in D200 - Sharpening +2 and moderate saturation, normal tone compensation (anything else on tone tends to darken the background to much on flash)
- I switch between straight normal and the above custom setting on a whim

I organise my photos using Picasa2 -yes! - it's very fast on NEF files, faster than anything else I've tried. Sometimes I can get away with the photos on a straight Picasa2 sharpen and saturation (I'm feeling lucky - NOT - does bad things to the colour if the photo is the slightest bit not a happy snap)

If I take a lot of photos in a session, I'll process them all using DXO optics pro - does the basic light and sharpening fixes and you get good results straight out of the box totally automated.

Then into photoshop CS2 for the fun stuff where neccessary.

I haven't posted anything that hasn't had at least some sharpening and at least a tad of curves.

[christiand]

Thanks Justin.

I'm still feeling my way around the D200 and I must say what comes straight out of the camera using default settings is great.
I only apply PP for web images at the moment.

Cheers,
CD