Silfra Hall Iceland

Charles Hood · Issue 25, Jul/Aug 2005 · pp. 40–41

Products mentioned: Nikon D100

The big difference between film and digital is that with film predominately your work has finished when the image is captured. However, with a digital image your work has just begun. No picture could be further from the truth than with this silhouette of a diver (Peter Rowlands) taken in Silfra Hall, Iceland. It recently appeared on the front cover of TIME magazine in UK. As a photojournalist I tend to shoot jpeg images. This is mainly due to the restrictions of the Nikon D100, but also due to the speed of post processing on my MAC. Let me elaborate. Jpegs take a fraction of the time to record to Compact Flash compared to either RAW or tiff files. Thus I can shoot a number of shots very quickly. Typically I require up to 20 images of a particular shot to guarantee one perfect one. Also I can download, review, manipulate and store jpegs much faster than using RAW or tiff files. Moreover, …