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For
the technically minded- or anal-retentive- folk amongst you, here is some additional information. Nearly all images dating from 1980 to 2000 were photographed with manual Olympus analog SLRs- a mix of OM2s, OM4s and OM4-Tis, with superb Zuiko prime lenses from 21 to 200mm. My current gear is based around Canon EOS 1v, 5D, 40D and 450D bodies, with L series 17-40 F4, 24-70 F2.8, 24-105 F4 IS, 70-200 F2.8 and F4L IS, 100-400 F4/5.6L zoom lenses, together with 20, 28, 50 and 85mm primes, the 100mm F2.8 macro and the 17-55 F2.8 and 10-22 zooms for the 40 and 450D. Tasty... The earlier film-based images here were scanned from original transparencies at 4000 or 5400 dpi with Microtek or Minolta dedicated film scanners. Images were then post-processed in Photoshop, currently in CS 3 version. From early 2005, I have been shooting digital only. Current digital workflow is a bit different- RAW processing uses DxO, Canon DPP and Photoshop CS3 Engines, with final upscaling for commercial use by Genuine Fractals. High ISO shots also benefit from a touch of Noise Ninja. And I use the excellent freeware PTLens for ultrawide shots. Complicated...but who said digital was simple? Images displayed on this website are derived from totally uncompressed single layer RGB 8-bit tiff files, typically 50- 100 Mb size. So, what you see here has typically been compressed by a factor of about 2000. Just imagine what the originals look like... In the great tradition of Doom™ and Quake™, three secret images are hidden in this site. See if you can find them without peeking at the source html!! (Or cheat here)
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