From: john 

# Those are some really nice closeups you got there...
	http://wagoneers.com/fotos/2007/08-Aug-4-Seattle-BlueAngels/

# Can you give details on the equipment you were using to take those shots? 
- used a Lumix FZ50 and Lumix FZ7.  12x Optical Zoom, Leica Lens.
	the FZ50 is a 10MP, the FZ7 is 6MP, anything over 4MP will
	give you good results if the OPTICS are good.  I've been
	happy with Lumix(Panasonic) and Olympus digital camera optics.
	I've tested Nikon, Canon, Pentax and Sony and not been impressed.

	I ALWAYS shoot my pictures at the highest megapixel, highest quality possible.
	Takes a lot of space, but if you get that perfect picture, you'll never regret it.

# And perhaps things like focal length and such?
- many of the shots were at the full telephoto range of 12x or 420M (35mm equivalent)
  used either the program mode or the simple mode, should have used manual
	focus as many shots were out of focus... set focus to infinity for
	shots like this, select the highest shutter speed possible.  If you
	want to go with a wider angle shot, go for a higher depth of field
	with a larger fstop.  shallow depth of field, lower fstop.  digitals
	don't make it easy to control shutter speed/fstop or focus... so most
	of the artistry is in the composition, zoom and layout.

  would pan the shots, that's where you follow the subject with the camera
	as you shoot the picture, gently squeezing the shutter and following
	through.

- Once the pictures are out of the camera I look at them on a 1400xsomething
	resolution laptop (fujitsu) screen and pick the best focus, light, etc.

	- next step is to take the 4M file and if needed, crop the image, you
	want your subject to stand out, elminate a lot of extra background, if
	possible get as close to your subject as possible, nice thing about having
	a 10x or 12x OPTICAL zoom... don't use the digital zoom, it degrades quality> 
	I use Lview pro and old shareware program for windows 95.
	http://wagoneers.com/CS/TOOLS/LVIEWPRO.EXE  set the jpeg save value to max,
	which is only 95%... each time you save with this tool you will lose
	quality... don't save multiple times.

- once all the pictures are selected, and a few cropped, then I run Bome's image
	resizer to resize into another directory.  I set the maximum long side
	of 800, 900 or 1024, 100% Jpeg quality, and hit batch save.
	 	http://www.bome.com/tools/resizer/

- then I use WinSCP to scp them up to my server, use shell commands in linux
	to create the page using a few commands in the vi editor and I'm done.

john
(fotomeister)

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On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Ed K. wrote:
 # Those are some really nice closeups you got there...
Can you give details on the equipment you were using to take those shots? 
And perhaps things like focal length and such?


Mon Aug  6 10:19:15 2007