A couple of more- Drive is back!

[Murph]

More from Elder Lake, in Kilgore, these shot with the D700 24-70mm

[PhotoByMark]

Good news, Murph.

[Murph]

More: It is so nice to have my photos back.

[Wil_Bloodworth]

Murph,

Did you use any of the D-Lighting settings for any of these shots?

- Wil

[Murph]

No, I forgot.

Originally Posted by ParkImaging

Murph,

Did you use any of the D-Lighting settings for any of these shots?

- Wil

[Wil_Bloodworth]

Originally Posted by Murph

No, I forgot.

I typically leave my ADL on Auto and if I really want to use that feature I'll use Nikon's software to convert from RAW. All other non-Nikon software is going to completely ignore the ADL flag and tone curve so if you're using Adobe or Capture One or Bibble or DxO or whatever... it's useless... but it doesn't hurt to have it turned on in the camera.

- Wil

[Murph]

Some from the Beach that I am just getting around to working on:





Sunken Gardens




Guadalupe River with Ken:





The Photographers at Luling Mills:

[dezignMedia]

Great news, Murph! The photos are really beautiful (except that ugly chick!) LOL

[Lupe Talamantez]

Who's the Karen (whatzerlastname) look-alike? Was she helping carrying your equipment for you?
Anyway, the grayscale pic of the path between the rails is like poetry.
Nice job on that one, Murph.

[jeffkohn]

Murph,

Glad you got everything back, thanks for sharing. And you're going to back up religiously from now on, right?

Originally Posted by ParkImaging

I typically leave my ADL on Auto and if I really want to use that feature I'll use Nikon's software to convert from RAW. All other non-Nikon software is going to completely ignore the ADL flag and tone curve so if you're using Adobe or Capture One or Bibble or DxO or whatever... it's useless... but it doesn't hurt to have it turned on in the camera.

One thing to watch out for, having ADL turned on in the camera affects the metering system if you use matrix metering. With ADL on the meter will choose to underexpose in some situations, since it's going to boost the shadows. That's really all ADL does, bias the metering system to protect the highlights and then uses a tone curve that lifts the mid-tones and shadows up. Depending on how you determine exposure this may not effect you, but it's something to be aware of.

[Murph]

Religiously. Although I was backing up on the two 1 tb drives in the computer, it is just Windows 7 did strange things to the drives. Now I have external storage, and am burning archival gold DVDs as extra backup. Thanks on the ADL information, I was bracketing on the other shots though.

Originally Posted by jeffkohn

Murph,

Glad you got everything back, thanks for sharing. And you're going to back up religiously from now on, right?


One thing to watch out for, having ADL turned on in the camera affects the metering system if you use matrix metering. With ADL on the meter will choose to underexpose in some situations, since it's going to boost the shadows. That's really all ADL does, bias the metering system to protect the highlights and then uses a tone curve that lifts the mid-tones and shadows up. Depending on how you determine exposure this may not effect you, but it's something to be aware of.

[Murph]

Thanks. I liked it better in B&W than in color. Karen was showing off her new fancy camera holder gizmo.

Originally Posted by Lupe Talamantez

Who's the Karen (whatzerlastname) look-alike? Was she helping carrying your equipment for you?
Anyway, the grayscale pic of the path between the rails is like poetry.
Nice job on that one, Murph.

[Murph]

The last one.

[Murph]

I am thinking that Karen's rig could also work with matching MP-5 smgs.....