Pictures from the Applecider Festival in Cornwall

Here are a few pictures I took a few weeks back at a very lively Apple Cider Festival on Popple Swamp road in Cornwall. I used a Fuji X-H1 camera with a 35mm f 2.0 lens. All pictures were converted to Black and White in Adobe Camera Raw

Questions and Answers

(Q)What can an individual photographer do to avoid having their photos taken from the Web and monetized?
(A) Images on the web can be copyrighted though technically as soon as the photo is taken it is copyrighted. This will indicate that the image displayed is your intellectual property and can't be used without your consent. Or you can add a water-mark to the image. Water marks are very difficult to remove from an image. Also, on websites, you should never post a high-resolution image so if the image is used, its use is very limited. There are other options available but they are much more technical. For our competition photos, you cannot do this; however, the images are reduced to a small size making them more difficult to use for monetary purposes. Bottom line though, it is easy to prevent law-abiding people from stealing your images by the aforementioned steps, but it is very difficult to prevent non-law-abiding people from stealing your photos. Even if you combined all steps to prevent an image from being used, there will always be ways around it.

(Q) I was wondering if anyone in the club sets their camera to “Auto ISO” for all modes? i.e. aperture priority, shutter priority and plain auto mode. I have a Nikon D7200 camera and several lenses. My camera is 24 mega pixels. No matter how hard I try my photos always seem to come out to grainy in the “Auto ISO” mode. I can correct the noise in post production, but that seems to be just an extra step. Is it just me or do others have the same problem? For now, I turned the function off and was wondering should I even bother?
(A) You can use auto-ISO without almost any mode, but it is most useful when using Shutter Priority Mode. With Shutter Priority Mode, you can pick the shutter speed and let the camera choose the aperture and ISO. The camera's order or priorities will be Shutter, ISO, Aperture. If you are taking a photo at a time of rapidly changing light, it may make sense to use it. Or if there's a lot of action and it’s too difficult to keep up with changing conditions for modifying speed, aperture and ISO all at the same time (i.e. Sports). But I have found that if I use it in other modes, it will typically over-expose and I have to fix that in post-processing.

(Q) What is the difference between ppi and dpi?
(A) The two dimensions are frequently used interchangeably but have different meanings. The term ppi measures how many pixels per inch are displayed on the screen. The term dpi measures how many dots of ink a printer can place within an inch.

(Q) What is the difference between sRGB and RGB?
(A) Some monitors display a wider color gamut than others. sRGB and Adobe RGB include an equal amount of colors, but the range of sRGB is narrower. Adobe RGB is said to have a 35% wider gamut of color than sRGB. Also, professional printers have a preference as to which color spaces they require. NOTE: For competition photos, we should use sRGB as it renders better results.

(Q) Should I shoot in RAW or JPG?
(A) Cameras can take photos in RAW or JPG format. With RAW, there is more data to work with when processing your photos. A RAW file gives you more shades and tones to work with than a JPG. The shade is the hue and the tone is the brightness. Each pixel is a specific shade and tone. RAW images are huge (!) so they will take up more space on your memory card and in your computer. The RAW files are too large to email and when we submit photos to competitions such as NECCC and PSA, there are size limitations. So, although you may take the image in RAW, after processing, you will need to convert it to JPG and size it correctly.

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