Wash Those Vegies Well

What do you do when you've picked your latest crop and wish to wash off the dirt ?

Simple. Back up to the local reservoir, net off a small area, toss the vegies in, jump in after them and wash away.

Enjoy.

Love this old truck.

Cheers


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Who Was That Masked Man ?

Probably the only self portrait you'll ever see of me.

I've been trying to find where to buy one of these hoods for ages. Thai workers wear them all the time to keep off the sun.

Anyway, yesterday I came a cross a very small shop which sold them. Had to grab one - 50 THB.

I had this notion that I might wear it when out shooting in rural areas, but after wearing it even for a few minutes indoors, I don't know how anyone can wear it all day out in the blazing sun. It is very hot with it on.

Cheers


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FujiFilm F200 EXR - Velvia On Velvia

Went for a walk the other night and I was playing around with shooting my F200 EXR at ISO 1600 (Auto) and using Velvia film simulation. This was in P Mode, M Fine, DR 200% and minus 0.33 EV. Pretty much my normal settings except for the ISO 1600 and Velvia parts.

As I was processing them, I decided to apply a small amount of exposure and noise adjustment in ACR and, once opened in Photoshop, I used a Curve adjustment to apply a 'Velvia' curve. Once that was done, I applied my normal sharpening routine. With some I also used 'Despeckle' on parts of the image for some localised noise control.

I did not write the Velvia curve preset, but downloaded it from where it is available on another site. It is here. Have a look at the bottom of the page. There are also presets available for Provia and Portra. Details about the sharpening action are here

Anyway, this is what I came out with. Simply in chronological order. The ISO's range from ISO 200 to 1600 with a little over half shot at ISO 1600.

Enjoy.

Since posting this, I have adopted a different approach to the noise reduction routine. Rather than reposting them all, I'll shoot some new ones and do a walk-through of the edit process when I post them.

However, here is just the last one re-done.

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Rice And Stuff

Went out with all three Fuji cameras today. Came across some more rice harvesting and also played around with some landscape pix.

These first ones are from the S100 fs.

These next ones are from the HS-10.

The last two are from the F200 EXR.

Cheers


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