David's Images of the Day Photoblog
Views of the land around the world
Glacier National Park. Somewhere I want to go back again before the glaciers are all gone. Lots of waterfalls along the road. I do remember traffic being bad. All images taken with a brand new (at the time) Nikon D200 DSLR camera.
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International Restroom directions and reflections Selfie in Granite. Image take with a Nikon 1 V1 camera and 10 mm f/2.8 lens (ISO 200, 10 mm, f/4, 1/125 sec).
I spent the night in Jackson Hole and got up early to see Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park before going to Yellowstone National Park. I remember that it was very cold at Jenny Lake with a little bit of ice just at the shore. Even at 18 mm with the D200 camera (equivalent to 27 mm on a full frame camera) you could not get the entire view across the lake with one image. I took several images because I was told that there was software that could stitch several images together for a panorama. I didn’t have the software when I took the images. Back then I only had a flimsy tripod, no remote shutter, and my fingers were getting really cold.
What is right or wrong with these two images? You need to open and look at the images in a full screen mode. One panorama was done with Photoshop CS5 and the other with an early version of either AutoPano or PTGui. If I have time later today I will redo a panorama using newer/current versions of the software.
Two weeks before my “Gone to See America 2006 Trip” I bought my first DSLR camera (a Nikon D200, based on a recommendation from my brother) and two lenses. I admit I didn’t know how to use the camera, and the manual was not much help. As soon as I got back from the trip I knew I needed to learn a lot more. Even back then I could tell that there was good and really bad information on the web. Tom Hogan’s D200 book was much more helpful than the Nikon manual supplied with the camera.
Today I am including a before and after image from that trip. When I went on the “Gone to See America 2006 trip” I didn’t know any better, and only saved JPG images — which meant there was much less information available later for reprocessing. Since then, I only saved the RAW image data. You need to look at the full images to see the difference of nine years of better programs, and better knowledge of how to reprocess images (and this was using the out of the camera JPG image, not the full RAW image data which I didn’t have). I have to admit since then I have saved every image — good, bad, and ugly. You learn from the bad and ugly. Never know when a new program will be developed to convert it to something useful. You also get ideas if you ever go back to the same location.
I hope to hear from viewers if they do see a difference in these images.
