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Cheer Up!
“Cheer Up!” (May 06 2003)
It’s hard to believe, on a grey, overcast, drizzly, British Sunday morning, that the weather was like this only a couple of weeks ago. This field of rape is amazingly just around the corner from the industrial estate where I work; a large aperture was used to blur out all of the man-made paraphenalia in the background (pylons, electricity lines, motorways…) and to focus on the flowers.
Now, I must stop procrastinating and get back to the mountain of work that is my City and Guilds project. Only a couple more weeks to go…
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#1 Sean
Hi Mark
I presume this is another 10D image. Now that you have had the 10D for a few weeks, I wondered what you felt about the image quality versus a scanned 35mm tranny.
Does the 10D win hands down or is there still some advantages to using film? Just curious on your views.
4:45 pm - Monday, May 19, 2003
#2 Mark Goldstein
Hi Sean,
And I've always got my film camera and some slide film tucked away in my camera bag, just in case!
Yes, this is another 10D image. I haven't used my poor unloved EOS 300 film camera at all since I bought the 10D!
From my own personal viewpoint, the 10D wins hands down for what I want to do - that is, print up to A4 size on an Epson 890 printer, and regularly post images to the web. I can't see any difference between a 10D A4 print and an A4 print from scanned slide film. The 10D file size is large enough to print a full A4 image at just under 300dpi. From a web poitn of view, I no longer have to go through the tedious task of scanning the photos that I want to post, cleaning them up in Photoshop etc. Subsequently I've posted more photos since I got the 10D than before.
Now this all might change in the future, say, if I decided to try and supply files to a stock image library, as the 10D files aren't large enough for some libraries. But I'm not near to that yet, and I feel the 10D will let me learn more quickly than a film-based camera.
So it's still a question of deciding what you want to do with your images, but I have no regrets at the moment
Mark
4:59 pm - Monday, May 19, 2003
#3 lil
What a great photo, Mark - lovely composition and a delicate range of colour toning. Actually, I had no idea there were even rape blossoms (unfortunate name!) outside of Japan (here they're called nanohana)! Learn something new everyday
Looking forward to seeing more of your nature photography - is that enough encouragement to continue distracting you from your other projects?
8:55 pm - Monday, May 19, 2003
#4 Mark Goldstein
There's a short period of time in late April/early May when the rape fields are in full bloom. They've just about stopped flowering now, helped by the gloomy UK weather. Nanohana is a much better name though!
I'm afraid your praise isn't enough to prise me away from my City and Guilds project work. In the words of John Fashanu, "Focus, come on, Focus, Focus...".
9:17 pm - Monday, May 19, 2003
#5 Steve Crane
This crop is grown here in South Africa as well, where it is known as canola. Huge fields can be seen in flower in spring/early summer near where I live, which is near Cape Town.
1:13 am - Tuesday, May 20, 2003