Davie's Fault - Straight Out Of The Camera

[Rob MacKillop]

I saw Davie's out of the camera thread just before I set out to edit my morning's catch. When I tried to edit them, I saw his big head appear before me like a ghost...it was shaking from side to side, and I'm sure I heard a 'Tut, tut!".

So here we are - straight out of the Fuji XE-1, 18--55mm lens. I've only edited the size.

The River Almond in Edinburgh was in full spate this morning, and looked quite dirty.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

The sad news is that I accidentally deleted half my shots! They were on the memory card in two folders, and I highlighted both folders, and dragged them onto my hard drive. I saw them both download. But when I came to edit them, only one folder was there. A mystery. In the meantime, confident that I had downloaded them all, I emptied the memory card...Alas!

 

[Pete Askew]

Well, there you go. Nothing to be scared of at all. In focus, correctly exposed and nicely framed. I like the last one especially.

 

[Pete Askew]

I always wait until I have imported the files into LR successfully before re-formating a card. Sandisk do a recovery file to get the deleted files back so don't panic!

http://www.sandiskrecovery.net

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks, Pete. Hopefully I can recover them, as there were two or three I was pleased with.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Hmm...the ad says it can recover gif, tif, bmp, png, wmf, and psd image files, but no mention of jpg...

 

[Davie Hudson]

Don't blame me lol the only reason i put them up straight from the camera was to have a look at the picture quality .... it won't happen often believe me

 

[Rob MacKillop]

No, I definitely blame you

 

[Pete Askew]

Hmm...the ad says it can recover gif, tif, bmp, png, wmf, and psd image files, but no mention of jpg...

Try this link along with the key I pm'd.

http://www.lc-tech.com/rescuepro/

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Very nice set Rob - love the toffee look to the water as it goes over the weir, and the lovely autumn colors of the trees

Lovely blur on the water - what shutter speed did you use to get that look?

On shots 1 and 4, there are square blocks cut out of the rock wall - any idea what they were for?

Also - love the comp and framing on the last shot

 

[Dave Young]

Nice images Rob, certainly caught the murkiness of the water very well there. Shame you lost the rest of your images.

As an aside, I read somewhere one should always delete and format SD cards in-camera to maintain the file integrity so that's what I do now. It's a good idea as it means if you check your images on your computer before using the camera next time and finding you have got a transfer issue you still have them on the card.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Chris - Thanks. Toffee, eh? I met one pro photographer on the track who was bemoaning the fact that the water "looked like shit" - and he refused to take any photos. Professionals, eh?!

Shutter speed was 0.5 seconds at f22, ISO 200, using the T stop. I didn't want it too milky. The flow was too fast to get that lovely shower effect Julian got the other day.

I noticed those square cut outs, but have no idea what they were for. There has been a lot of activity on that river over the millennia, and I'm sure someone must have written a book about it - I'll look it up. A decade or so ago, some of the bank gave way, falling into the river, and out popped a carved Roman lion!

Dave - thanks for the tip. I'll try to remember that. I've spent the last four hours trying to recover 20 shots - they'd better be worth it! Still in process... It should have been done by now, but I made a couple of mistakes with the software install. Tip: read the bloody instructions!