Here's one I photographed last year on my annual holidays. Taken with the *istDS + 16-45 mm DA zoom, processed with Photoshop Elements 1 (which came bundled with my Epson 1650 scanner).
http://picasaweb.google.com/supera1000/PESO/photo?authkey=X7kmHo_6wyc#5049387676421092210 http://tinyurl.com/3ayfqt I use Elements 1 for most of my image processing, in spite of its limitations (I'm too much of a cheapskate to shell out for something more sophisticated.....) Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia Quoting Scott Loveless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've been thinking lately about the cost of doing photography and > finishing photographs for web publication. A recent, erm, thread > got me > steamed up enough to post this. Basically, how much can you > accomplish > without spending any more money than it cost you to obtain your > hardware? First some assumptions and then the rules. > > Assumptions: > 1. You have access to a computer with an operating system > installed and > a connection to the Internet. Said computer is capable of running > photo > editing software and displaying the images on a screen. > 2. You have access to a working digital camera or a scanner that > you > can connect to the computer. > > The rules: > 1. You can use the software that came with your computer. Your > computer probably came with an OS installed. If it didn't, > whatever OS > is currently installed is fine. OSX, Windows, Linux, whatever. > From > what I understand, the Mac has some basic photo editing software > installed by default. Most Linux distros do, too. All of this is > fine. > 2. You can use the software that came with your camera or scanner. > If > you had to buy a third party application to get your scanner or > camera > to talk to your computer that's fine, too. > 3. Since most of us like to print photos from time to time, you > can use > the software that came with your printer. In my case the Epson > R320 > came with Elements 2.0, so that's allowed. > 4. You can use any freely available software, open source or > otherwise. e.g. - Irfanview, Lightzone for Linux, Picasa, the > GIMP, > etc. Trial versions, software that watermarks your photos until > you pay > for the real thing, etc. are not allowed. You should be able to > use the > software indefinitely (and legally, so no warez) without having to > shell > out extra cash. > > To sum up, if it came with your hardware, is absolutely necessary > for > operating your hardware, or is freely available (no strings > attached) > it's allowed. Nothing else. > > Within these limitation try to produce something you're proud to > call > your own. When discussing digital (or digitally scanned) > photographs > with someone who's never done it before, you should be able to show > them > the photo and say something like "All you need is your computer, > your > camera, and whatever software came with them." > > In an attempt to add some credibility to the challenge, I should > state > that I have submitted two photographs to the Pentax Gallery. One > of > them was accepted. I shot the photograph on a K100D, JPEG, and > edited > it with Picasa on a PC running Windows XP. It was a PESO a few > weeks > ago and can be seen here: > http://picasaweb.google.com/sdloveless/PDMLPESO/photo#5035527265195980162 > > If you're interested in playing along, simply post a link to your > photo(s) in a reply to this message, or mark it as a Cheapskate > Challenge photo in a separate thread. Let us know what software > you > used to process/edit the photo. Compare it to the software you > would > normally use. If you're not interested, I won't be offended. If > you > think I need to revise the assumptions or rules please let me know. > If > you think this is a ridiculous waste of time I'd like to hear about > > that, too. > > Have fun! > > -- > Scott Loveless > www.twosixteen.com > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
