 Digital Outback Photo - Photography using Digital SLRs |
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D30 @Big Point Reyes / Bodega Bayphotos by Gerhard Stappen/Uwe Steinmueller
, text Uwe Steinmueller
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| This is part of out general D30 experience report. |
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| Light houses had some magic for me for a long time and the Point Reyes light house has quite a unique location. The weather was mostly cloudy last Sunday and windy as usual near the light house. |
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| Again the built-in flash comes in handy at some times as here to photograph the instruments. |
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| At the Point Reyes station which is a touristy meeting point the "Wild West" is still alive. |
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| Green (besides the infamous skin tones) is probably the most difficult color for outdoor shooters. Here the right WB (white balance) is key. Without using a gray card or setting up custom WB it gets difficult (to be honest I missed both). With Bibble it is pretty easy to correct the WB later but the D30 software does not provide enough WB presets for daylight (just two: daylight and cloudy). |
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| This photo had to be cropped from a larger one (which is also online) because of some ugly plastic bag part hanging in the bench. On the other side this is a nice shot which shows unspectacular nice color. |
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| The first automatic conversion of this photo with ZoomBrowser was very disappointing. But now it hopefully shows what I liked about the scenery. |
| Again the D30 proved to be a very competent camera and also very film like. To get a feeling D30 versus its major competitor the D1 look at the photos from the same trip using the D1. |
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