• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

First DSLR

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I'm enjoying the Rebel so far. :)
 
OK, so I pick but the horizon is off by about 5 degrees and some sharpening and saturation would make it pop. I can post a corrected example if you like.
 
What did you do? I can't really tell a difference between the two.

All done with Photoshop CS2.

I leveled the horizon first. Since there was no horizon, I used the deck and made sure it was straight up and down. Naturally the photo became smaller after that.

I then sharpened the photo using the unsharpen mask

Amount: 85%
Radius: 1 pixel
Threshold: 4 levels

I raised the black point in levels to 5 (from 0).

I then push the entire saturation to 10 and then the red channel to 30.

See the time difference side by side?

img0186sidebysideoh5.jpg
 
Cool. Can you do this with Elements as well?

Yes.

I'm not sure you can work in 16 bit with elements though(but who knows maybe you can with the newer versions). It's worthwhile to have something you can work in 16 bit with.
 
thanks for posting that website

thanks for posting that website. I will have to explore it although I already have too many books.


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http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/understanding-series/understanding-histograms.shtml

If you don't understand the histogram I'd learn.....and use it over what the brightness/exposure looks like on the LCD. If you hit play to view an image and then click on info, you'll see it pop up. Images don't like to be brightened up later in PS, they'll be noisier than if you'd shot them right(even using a low ISO).

About that kit lens. Mine sucked, but mine was also the earlier version, a completely different lens....at least I'm pretty sure. I've heard better things about the newer kit lens they send out with those. Hank Baker just said on highinstability last week the rebel kit was a good lens. So maybe they've got something much better than the old version now.

Not sure what you know or don't, and what you are looking to hear, but a DSLR is a DSLR, essentially. There's only going to be a very few things you can do to get the images right. I made this page on basic stuff a while back: http://www.extremeinstability.com/misc07-1-26.htm Just not a whole lot to the workings of a camera. It's best to save yourself some "trouble" and do away with all the auto and "various landscape/sports/etc" settings, and just learn the basics that get you where you need to be.
 
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