Comments on: a swirl of colour http://planetneil.com/tangents/2008/04/29/a-swirl-of-colour/ various writings on photography, whether techniques, ideas, equipment info, or just rants. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:50:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Robert Woudenberg http://planetneil.com/tangents/2008/04/29/a-swirl-of-colour/#comment-1216 Robert Woudenberg Wed, 14 May 2008 21:56:36 +0000 http://planetneil.com/tangents/?p=161#comment-1216 Hello Niel, Just rediscovered you website and made excellent use of radio slaves at an event this weekend by following your recomendations. Just noticed the comment about the D300 above and and active d lighting and would like to say that it works very well but does not bring up background highlights like the one in your carousel image. It does light up the shadows great however. I am currentlly shooting with the Fuji S5 and D300 and prefer the S5 when using flash and the D300 with availble light. It is tough to get flash to balance color correctly with D300 and easy beyond belief with the S5. Thanks for the inspiration!! Rob Hello Niel,
Just rediscovered you website and made excellent use of radio slaves at an event this weekend by following your recomendations. Just noticed the comment about the D300 above and and active d lighting and would like to say that it works very well but does not bring up background highlights like the one in your carousel image. It does light up the shadows great however. I am currentlly shooting with the Fuji S5 and D300 and prefer the S5 when using flash and the D300 with availble light. It is tough to get flash to balance color correctly with D300 and easy beyond belief with the S5. Thanks for the inspiration!!
Rob

]]> By: Neil http://planetneil.com/tangents/2008/04/29/a-swirl-of-colour/#comment-1149 Neil Mon, 05 May 2008 08:26:24 +0000 http://planetneil.com/tangents/?p=161#comment-1149 <blockquote>Christopher ... I doubt that the Active-D Lighting would've helped me, since (as far as I know), those settings don't affect the raw file when you edit it in software other than Nikon's. Since I do my editing mostly in Bridge / ACR, I have different defaults and settings. Nikon Capture and Nikon NX are simply too slow for a workflow involving hundreds or even thousands of images. Neil vN.</blockquote>

Christopher …

I doubt that the Active-D Lighting would’ve helped me, since (as far as I know), those settings don’t affect the raw file when you edit it in software other than Nikon’s.

Since I do my editing mostly in Bridge / ACR, I have different defaults and settings. Nikon Capture and Nikon NX are simply too slow for a workflow involving hundreds or even thousands of images.

Neil vN.

]]> By: Christopher Luk http://planetneil.com/tangents/2008/04/29/a-swirl-of-colour/#comment-1146 Christopher Luk Sun, 04 May 2008 05:54:21 +0000 http://planetneil.com/tangents/?p=161#comment-1146 Thanks for another helpful walk through of your digital workflow, Neil. I just tried the three samples from Totally Rad Actions and the "Magic Glasses" action is quickly becoming my favourite. This might not be a "good" question, but do you believe that the "Active D-Lighting" systems found in the Nikon D3 or D300 would have helped save you some post-processing time in scenarios such as this? I haven't had a chance to try these systems first-hand yet. Thanks for another helpful walk through of your digital workflow, Neil. I just tried the three samples from Totally Rad Actions and the “Magic Glasses” action is quickly becoming my favourite.

This might not be a “good” question, but do you believe that the “Active D-Lighting” systems found in the Nikon D3 or D300 would have helped save you some post-processing time in scenarios such as this? I haven’t had a chance to try these systems first-hand yet.

]]> By: Mark Mortensen http://planetneil.com/tangents/2008/04/29/a-swirl-of-colour/#comment-1141 Mark Mortensen Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:15:15 +0000 http://planetneil.com/tangents/?p=161#comment-1141 Very nice post processing Neil. I've always wondered how you get your images to pop and now I see. I'm looking for some good Photoshop plugins to help automate my workflow as well and will check out the Totally Rad Actions. There seems to be so many plugins and I never know which ones are worth the money. Very nice post processing Neil. I’ve always wondered how you get your images to pop and now I see. I’m looking for some good Photoshop plugins to help automate my workflow as well and will check out the Totally Rad Actions. There seems to be so many plugins and I never know which ones are worth the money.

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