Centennial Park (Preview)

This is a slide-show preview of some digital still photographs taken at a park near my home. The final cut ought to be available in August.

Canon XTi EOS Digital Camera
18-55mm EF-S series zoom
24-105mm IS L-series zoom
100-400mm IS L-series telephoto/zoom
UV filters
Canon 500D screw-on close-up lens/filters
Various photo-editing software programs


Here's an example of the still-photo resolution, versus what you get on a video-conversion and upload: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/Tied/MallardDuckling-IMG_0703.jpg

You can see the still photos one-by-one on my PhotoBucket album(s). I have to divide them into four albums, because of limitations as to quatity by PhotoBucket. So they are grouped by file name, A-C, D-K, L-R, and S-Z. Here are the three locations, in order:

For A-C, go to: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v505/Tied/Centennial%20Park%20A-C/

For D-K, go to: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v505/Tied/Centennial%20Park%20D-K/

For L-R, go to: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v505/Tied/Centennial%20Park%20L-R/

For S-Z, go to: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v505/Tied/Centennial%20Park%20S-Z/

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• Tiednbound
• Centennial
• Park
• wildlife
• nature
• animals
• birds
• insects
• bugs
• fish
• frogs
• turtles
• trees
• landscapes
• hiking
• digital
• photography
• slide
• show
• Canon
• camera
• Orland
• Lake
• Sedgewick
• marsh
• grasslands
• meadows

[edster612]

Well done. Looks like a very beautiful and natural place. My dog really liked (meaning barked at) the bird or child in the background at the beginning. The soundtrack was nice as well. You've got good skill with that camera. =)

[Tiednbound]

Yes .... Some "genius" industrial psychologists concluded some time back that "jungle sounds" in the work place, or the waiting room at the dentist, were better than elevator-music of the hum of air-conditioners. Of course, at the dentist, they also mask the screams of patients in the chair from the people waiting for THEIR turn.

[FeetToeBandito]

Definitely post it, make several smaller video files if necessary but this one flowed so well that I hope you can get it all posted as one. Very nice work all around. I can well identify with the digital revolution - I was a photographer for 24 years with a full color darkroom for 35mm, medium format and 4X5 but it's been packed away since I moved to the country. Now it's all been rendered pretty much useless since I discovered digital. Do I miss film? Yeah, like poison ivy and the cramps!

[unclesaboin]

Yeah, the lens is definitely the most important. You get what you pay for too. There's a huge difference between a $300 lens and a $2500 lens. I only had the cheap lens with mine and it had the focus ring on the end. That gets really annoying when you use filters that need to stay in place. Every time I would set the focus, the filter would rotate along with the focus ring. I was using graduated ND filters for landscape pictures so that the sky wouldn't be overexposed.

[Tiednbound]

The predecessor slide show was almost the same photos (I added about a dozen more to this show) but didn't come out as well as a YT upload. I used a different program to put that show together, and it ended up a HUGE video file that took forever to upload.

The final cut ought to have about 40 more photos ....

[Tiednbound]

THAT'S what I used for these .... Canon Rebel XTi (10+ megapixel). They used to say 7 megapixels was the 35mm emulsion-film equivalent, I dunno'

But the lenses are THE most important thing. Just like computers, garbage-in --> garbage-out

My "kit" came with a 18-55mm EF-S series lens, and I sold a couple of guitars to buy a 100-400mm IS L-series telephoto/zoom .... WOW! That's the right tool for this job. With all that resolution, all I have to do is get my butt out to the boondocks :-)

[unclesaboin]

If I hadn't sold it, I could just replace the body and use all the same equipment. It was a Canon Rebel series camera. The digital Rebel is compatible with the lenses and the flash and everything else. Meh, I'll get back into it once I make a few notches on my loans and credit cards. ;-) It'll be a while though. hehe.

[Tiednbound]

Thank you. I have the same 35mm gear you speak of which I haven't used in years. (It's on my eBay-to-do list) :-)

It's amazing what you can do today with digital stills, compared to the old emulsion-film days. And once you've got something in zeros-and-ones, it will last forever without fading or spotting or succombing to life's random disasters.

I "cashed-in" a BUNCH of UAL frequent-flyer miles to get the camera I used for these for FREE, essentially.

[Tiednbound]

Thank you for the kind comment. I'm trying to find the best way to put this show together without losing the great resolution of the originals (generally, in 1024x768 pixel size). Corel's MediaOne seems to put together a good show easily. But uploading to YT crunches the resolution to the extent you miss the most stunning detail.

I figure the final cut of about 100 photos will be about 80MB in size. So I may just upload that file somewhere with a pointer in the description.

[FeetToeBandito]

Rats! I was too late, you've already pulled it.