Trans Gopeng-Cameron

shakir    Photoblog     nature, Photoblog, photography

Description: During Trans Gopeng-Cameron Expedition

Date: October 2004

Photo Title

Butterfly

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Camera:		C730UZ (OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD)	Shutter:		1/160 s
Create Date:		n.a.	Aperture:		f/3.2
Lens:		no lens info	ISO:		100
Flash:		Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode.	Focal Length:		9.7 mm

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In The Dark

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Camera:		C730UZ (OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD)	Shutter:		1/40 s
Create Date:		n.a.	Aperture:		f/3.2
Lens:		no lens info	ISO:		100
Flash:		Flash fired, auto mode.	Focal Length:		9.7 mm

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View of Gunung Batu Putih

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Camera:		C730UZ (OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD)	Shutter:		1/400 s
Create Date:		n.a.	Aperture:		f/5.6
Lens:		no lens info	ISO:		64
Flash:		Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode.	Focal Length:		5.9 mm

Photography, a new beginning…

shakir    Photoblog     nature, Photoblog, photography

I’ll be posting more of my photo collection in this blog, starting with the old ones; the time when my gear was point-and-shoot cameras and photography to me really was to point, and shoot..

As a start, the following was taken at Sungai Gabai waterfall, Hulu Langat. Selangor, circa 2003

Photo Title

The Frog Prince

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Camera:		C730UZ (OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD)	Shutter:		1/160 s
Create Date:		n.a.	Aperture:		f/4.0
Lens:		no lens info	ISO:		400
Flash:		Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode.	Focal Length:		5.9 mm

Fishy Story

shakir    Nerd Public Journal?     photography

Get to see this from my office’s window today;

and on 12x zoom of my camera;

Reminds me when net casting was among my hobby

Nikon D40x in Ubuntu Linux

shakir    Information Insemination, Nerd Public Journal?     bash, linux, photography, script

I’ve been using Nikon D40X on my previous trip to Jakarta (and Bandung). For this I need to update my previous script as there are few differences, as the following:

• I set the camera to use RAW format rather than jpeg
• Data transfer is through the laptop’s built in MMC card slot, rather than USB
• I’m now a (K)Ubuntu user

First step, is the software part. As RAW format is not really usable for "presentation", I need to convert it to another format, say JPEG. For this I’m gonna need  ufraw. Let’s install it;

sudo apt-get install ufraw
sudo apt-get install gimp-ufraw #optional

Using ufraw-batch (included in the ufraw package), I came up with this self explanatory, lightly commented bash script;

#!/bin/bash

#Set some variables
MOUNT_DIR=/media/mmc
MOUNT_DEV=/dev/mmcblk0p1
PHOTO_DIR=/home/shakir/Photos/temp/D40X
#Copy files from the MMC card
sudo mkdir $MOUNT_DIR
sudo mount -o uid=shakir,gid=shakir $MOUNT_DEV -t vfat $MOUNT_DIR
mv -v /media/mmc/dcim/100nd40x/* $PHOTO_DIR
sudo umount $MOUNT_DIR
sudo rmdir $MOUNT_DIR
cd $PHOTO_DIR
mkdir jpeg
#Convert RAW files to low quality JPEGs
for i in `ls *.nef`; do
        ufraw-batch –out-type=jpeg –out-path=jpeg/  \
          –compression=70 –size=600,600 –overwrite $i
        mv -v $i nef/
done
mkdir nef
mv *.nef nef/

The script would generate a low quality / resolution JPEGs, based on the un-processed RAWs. The JPEGs are useful to actually help me deciding which photos are meant for deletion, and which to keep. Later I would manually go to the selected RAW files folder, and;

ufraw *.nef

to edit the RAW files. This final step would give me the files that I mean to keep;

ufraw-batch --out-type=jpeg --out-path=jpeg/ --compression=100 --overwrite *.nef

I bring back no souvenirs but these photos;