Ranganathittu and Mysore zoo
Traveled to Ranganathittu and Mysore zoo last sunday along with my newly armed film camera. I shot my first 2 rolls of slide film and I am pretty happy with the results. The development and scanning costed me a bomb and the pictures are slightly underexposed and the contrast was too high ( this was due to the slide film I shot with ).
The above picture was taken using my Nikon F80 with elitechrome kodak Slide film. Rest of the pictures along with the pictures from my Nikon D70 are here.
Um, the “here” link needs to be fixed…
Link should be:
http://www.kalyanvarma.net/photography/travel/mysore200408/
😀
Did you touch it up with some software?
thanks.. forgot the http://
Just increased the brightness.. the scans were done really bad.
But the colours are really good
Thats the slide film. Personally I think the colors were a bit too right.. I should have used a less contrats film.. but anyway glad you liked it 🙂
really really nice….
the photos are really good…..
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Awesome!!!
I dint know scans could provide such crispy images, WOW! to that, and the images are really sharp and lack that dotty tinge that usually non-SLR digicams produce.
Touching up
You have quite a few keepers in this set. Try a little bit of unshrp mask using PS or PS elements, and they’ll really stand out sharp.
Excellent photographs. Thanks.
Hey how about organising a slide show, so that we can see the real thing ?
as in physical slide show ??
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Do you know exactly unsharp mask does ?? I just know it increases the contrast at the edges.. and any tips on the most optimal values for the radius/amount/thrushold ? ( btw I have no clue what each one of them are )
Yeah… haven’t seen any new slides in over 12 years now I think… a couple of years ago I managed to control my urges and pass a chance to buy some new 3D-Viewmaster discs.(It definitely helped that I was running short on $$$)
Or maybe once you have shot a few more rolls!
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Found a nice tutorial here : http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/understanding-series/understanding-usm.shtml
Will play with and see if anything good comes out.
heh.. let me have enough rolls buddy.. and since its pricy.. I think it’ll take a while 😀
Hi Kalyan,
Lovely photographs!! You’ve inspired me enough to sign-up for some photography courses.
While I’m at this, I couldn’t resist:
– The crocs in your pictures look like alligators to me.
– The tiger-fight looks like playtime and
– Tongue is spelt T O N G U E (not T O N G E).
Best,
Simig
– The crocs in your pictures look like alligators to me.
They are infact crocs..I did verify. – http://www.karnatakatourism.com/wildlife/rangan/rangan.htm
– The tiger-fight looks like playtime and
Yes.
– Tongue is spelt T O N G U E (not T O N G E).
Heh I realised I had a typo while I was uploading the pics.. was too lazy.. prob will change it sometime 😀
>They are infact crocs..I did verify.
I can’t get over this croc-gator thing because I’m just back from viewing gators in the wild…. I know gators are found mainly in North America but you can’t be desicive about what you find in a zoo…Hence the doubt. Thanks for the clarification.
And for heaven’s sake go get your 40 winks!!
Btw the croc pics I took are wild ones. 🙂
Oh I understand…. I don’t know of many people who keep tamed crocs!
ummm
It’s so bright and saturated that it looks like it could’ve been a photoshop cut n’ paste job
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i took one of your tiger shots and tweaked it in PS CS. notice how it stands out after adjusting curves and applying unsharp mask. enjoy!
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Nice…. very nice… care to share what settings did you use in unsharp mask ? 😀
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see attached screenshot…..
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How did you arrive at these settings? Is it just a matter of experiementing with various values till you hit the right one? Any rules of thumbs?
Thanks
Hey Kalyan,
You did inspire me enough. I signed up for a beginner’s photography course today. Thanks, thanks….
Simig
P.S.: Any luck with finding your camera?
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sorry for the late reply. This should answer your question:
Link 1
Link 2
in a nutshell, it’s enhancing contrast in the edges, thus giving the illusion of sharpness.
hope this helps.
AMAZING colours. But I have to keep telling myself “yeah, its a slide”. 🙂 Very nice photograph.