Holland? Sydney?

[stubbsy]

Here are two pics (more here) taken at a quaint little place called Holland House that I was introduced to by Matt K and his delightful wife. Both images were taken at ISO 640 using the 24-120VR and then processed using DxO Optics Pro. I find DxO handles these dark and potentially noisy images particularly well.

[Alpha_7]

Gorgeous and Quaint sums it up nicely, a great find, and I'm not surprised MattK and Phillo find it out.

So next question, what's the food like ?

[nito]

The shots are very nice interior photos peter. It has lots of warm and inviting colours. Very homely.

I had a go of DxO and it truely does handle low light conversions well. Too bad it runs as fast a a one leg dog on my computer. It took 3-4mins an image! Dam the 512Mb RAM to hell.

[PiroStitch]

Can't think of a thing to criticise about the pics as I like everything about it.

[Michael]

Where is the kid that had his finger in the dyke?


sorry lame I know.

nice shots stubbsy looks nice and warm, something my room isnt very at the moment.

[the foto fanatic]

Great pix Peter, and I agree with your comments about DxO and darker images. Whatever curve(s) they use sure manage to bring out the detail with little or no noise.

I have a question or two about workflow. I guess you would process your RAW file with DxO and then transfer to PS? Do you run DxO on auto, or do you use "expert"? I notice DxO applies its own sharpening based on camera model - do you apply sharpening here? Do you run all your images through DxO, or just selected ones?

Thanks in anticipation.

[Alex]

Nice. I like these a lot.

Alex

[stubbsy]

Great pix Peter, and I agree with your comments about DxO and darker images. Whatever curve(s) they use sure manage to bring out the detail with little or no noise.

I have a question or two about workflow. I guess you would process your RAW file with DxO and then transfer to PS? Do you run DxO on auto, or do you use "expert"? I notice DxO applies its own sharpening based on camera model - do you apply sharpening here? Do you run all your images through DxO, or just selected ones?

Thanks in anticipation.

Trevor

I run DxO on auto and let it do the lot (lazy I know) then save as dng and open in Photoshop for any final tweaks (eg in the last image I used a nik Color Efex grad ND Filter to balance the light in the image by making the RHS slightly lighter and the left darker). In most cases it only goes to Photoshop to frame and resize for the web. BTW I only use DxO when I need it, I don't run everything through it.

[stubbsy]

Thank you all for your comments.

Craig - food was traditional Dutch and we had breakfast - some sort of deep fried sausage shaped croquette with stuff of the texture of pate inside it and pickled herrings.

Nghia - I have 2gb RAM and it works fine. RAM is cheap (unless it's RDRAM) - upgrade. How on earth do you crank up Photoshop with 512Mb (windoze would eat most of that)

[sirhc55]

Peter - the first image is quite exquisite and has so much within the image that I could look at it for hours.

The second image, IMO, is destroyed by the overerly bright lamp which keeps dragging my eye to it.

[avkomp]

really like the first

steve

[stubbsy]

Chris, Steve - Thanks for your comments.

Chris - I agree about the light which is a real shit since I like the tonings of the rest of the image. I tried all I could to darken the #%$%!@ thing, but it always made the image look weird. So I've bitten the bullet & cloned the bastard out completely. Is this better?

[nito]

Peter- good new on that front. The wife let me upgrade the new computer. I will hopefully get the parts tomorrow or thurs at the latest. No more 512 Mb blues.

It is a Athlon X2 4200+ with 2 Gb of RAM and 250 Gb HDD.

Its all in preparation for the D200 later in the year. The wife will be suprised

[stubbsy]

Peter- good new on that front. The wife let me upgrade the new computer. I will hopefully get the parts tomorrow or thurs at the latest. No more 512 Mb blues.

It is a Athlon X2 4200+ with 2 Gb of RAM and 250 Gb HDD.

Its all in preparation for the D200 later in the year. The wife will be suprised

Nghia

I went from a 512Mb P3 to a 2Gb P4 and suddenly photoshop was on steroids and Nikon Capture seemed speedy. Enjoy.

[nito]

I certainly will, photoshop and all the RAW stuff will be much more fun and enjoyable now.

[Alpha_7]

I went to swap my ram between laptops so my "current" PP laptop had 1Gb instead of 512mb, but I can't find my mini screwdrivers

[sirhc55]

Peter -