I thought dropping it with you would be best. Oh well.

But, yes, if Sony had not put out so much marketing fuzz trying to get us to hang on because an A700 successor was right around the corner I would have gone elsewhere some time back. I looked at the A550 and it has lots of problems for me. I also looked at the A850 and the same. I believe that people such as winedarksea (aka Dulaney) and Danjojo_Resurrected1 who were everywhere for awhile pumping Sony were probably on the Sony payroll. They then suddenly and mysteriously disappeared.

I guess I am about 2/3 through my Vietnam photos. I am selecting ones I think I will put on my website and processing those. Then I will make one or two passes through that subset and select the ones to go on the site. Then I need to add captions for them. Maybe by the end of this week. I have been working a few hours a day, but it takes a lot of time since I process each photo individually and never do batch processing.

I have spent several hours a day for the last 17 days working on photos and preparing them for my website. This morning I finished the photos that I selected and I was ready to start writing captions and then discovered that a lot of the photos I processed in the first few days now look flat and lacking in contrast to me. Darn. This sort of thing happens often to me because when so many photos are processed over a few weeks I have found that what looks good to me at one point doesn't at a another point and I have unconsciously created a bunch that I no longer like. I now should go back and redo a bunch of them. I don't know how many at this point, but it will take some more time.

Yeah Henry I can see how that could easily happen. How was the lighting conditions generally? bright sunlight mostly, heavy overcast, patchy cloud?
Greg

Light varied a lot during the month depending on weather, time of day, and location. That isn't the problem. It is just that what looked good to me when I was processing a whole bunch of the cRAW images during the first week or so don't look good to me at all now. I have noticed this many times in the past. It doesn't have anything to do with the images or even the lighting conditions where my computer is placed, since I keep the light there fairly dim while working on photos. It is totally me. I can't tell you how many times I have had to go back and redo images that I was quite happy with at the time of processing. I don't know if it is just that my eyes get tired after many images or what it is. I have noticed that contrast and/or color balance are the two most common things that get me. What looks good at one point doesn't look good to me a day or two later.

Oh well. I was hoping I was done, but it is time to get my nose back to the grindstone.

Yep yep, I already got the processing and re-processing deal, I think part of the problem there is we can retain a colour 'memory' or latency that can interfere with further colour assessment, what I don't know is how cumulative it is and over what time span it remains effective.
You probably already know about it, but you can easily see it for yourself if you have any white paper sheets around, coloured objects that you were just looking at can appear as a latent shadow when looking at the white page. Maybe looking at a large grey exposure card frequently might help neutralize the eye's latency problem...?
With the lighting over there I was just wondering how difficult it was on location that's all, like in a general landscape strong lighting probably doesn't matter as much as in a street scene where you might have people under awnings in EV11 lighting and the rest of the scene is EV19... that sort of thing, then you wish for some light cloud cover when it's like that.
Greg

ps. Even worse with colour problems is that depending on the ambient light sometimes colour interference is additive and sometimes subtractive...wee lots of fun.

Okay, I finally got some of my Vietnam photos up on my website. Whew! See this post:

http://www.photoclubalpha.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=4705

Henry,

Happy 235th Birthday. You owe me a slice of birthday cake!

Semper Fi,

Dusty

Yes, Happy Birthday, Devil Dog. My first year in the Marine Corps in 1975 was the 200th birthday and I remember going to the Marine Corps Ball. Here is Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, birthplace of the U. S. Marine Corps.



Not for you Dusty, since you already know, but for anyone else who has no clue what we are talking about there is this very short bit of info:

http://www.marineparents.com/marinecorps/tuntavern.asp