My Vietnam Photos

[matbor]

Spent three weeks around Vietnam, here are some of the many photo's :D...

Vietnam - a set on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bordignon/sets/72157622712951917/)

Matt.

[VladTepes]

I've been watching a Viet cooking show on SBS lately and they do some bloody nice food !!!

I'm kind of keen to go but the missus is not at all interested as she thinks it's a bit "scary" etc.

What was your experiences of it ?
What sort of places did you stay in, etc ?

[matbor]

I've been watching a Viet cooking show on SBS lately and they do some bloody nice food !!!

I'm kind of keen to go but the missus is not at all interested as she thinks it's a bit "scary" etc.

What was your experiences of it ?
What sort of places did you stay in, etc ?

Awesome place to goto, very safe, apart from all the bikes on the road, but you soon get use to it and Taxi's everywhere are sooo cheap.

Food, is some of the best around, I even think the Seafood was better than Melbourne, which isn't hard I guess.

People, are very nice, some places the English isn't that good, but you work it out.

Accommodation, is getting a lot better, but most of the hotels are very clean and cheap. Hoi An/Nha Tran are the beach areas and the resort that they are building are huge.

We started in the North and went to Hanoi, Halong Bay, Hue, Hoi An, Nha Trang & Ho Chi Minh City. Best places where the last three. Too much smog in the North we found.

I have now been to Thailand (only the aussie tourist spot:twisted:), Bali, Cambodia and Vietnam. And have loved Vietnam and Cambodia, but IMO Vietnam wins purely because of the fantastic food... going back next year :D

Matt.

[clean32]

Mate try Laos, Val to PDG, Food is fantastic, its the french conection

[dullbird]

really nice stuff matt

My favs

the little boy in the corridor partially lit and the kid sitting eating by the curb

[matbor]

really nice stuff matt

My favs

the little boy in the corridor partially lit and the kid sitting eating by the curb

The corridor one, was taken down a alley way at about 9/10pm, he was playing soccer with another kid. No Flash, 50mm lens, iso 800! (on a D80, not a D3s :p) It is my favorite photo, getting it enlarged, not sure how big yet because of the noise, but it adds to it imo.

M.

[dullbird]

yeah I noticed the noise but I thought you did it for effect...as it certainly doesn't look out of place

[Lotz-A-Landies]

I wonder if any of the Aussie Vietnam vets would recognise the Vung Tau Ferry terminal?

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/12/1374.jpg

Exactly where did the troops disembark and where did they unload the Landys and Inters?

[dmdigital]

Matt,

Have you run it through Capture NX or Photoshop and try reducing the noise.

Great pictures. Just curious why all are B&W?

[matbor]

Matt,

Have you run it through Capture NX or Photoshop and try reducing the noise.

Great pictures. Just curious why all are B&W?

Put it though noise ninja and it didn't make a great deal of difference.

like b/w atm, there a few in colour but only uploading a few a day.

[dmdigital]

If NN didn't do anything then I guess that's as good as it gets, B&W will help there.

I know what you mean about the uploading, becomes a chore with too many images. I use the Flickr Uploadr program now days and find it makes things a lot quicker as it will name, keyword based on the ITPC data and also resize and let me preselect the set I want each image to go into.

[matbor]

If NN didn't do anything then I guess that's as good as it gets, B&W will help there.

I know what you mean about the uploading, becomes a chore with too many images. I use the Flickr Uploadr program now days and find it makes things a lot quicker as it will name, keyword based on the ITPC data and also resize and let me preselect the set I want each image to go into.

I use lightroom to export straight into flickr, so it isn't problem at all. The only reason that I only add a couple of pictures a day is that no one looks at all of them, this way people that subscribe to my feeds are more likely to see all the pics over a few weeks.

Matt.

[dmdigital]

Didn't realise that was available in Lightroom. I can do it from iPhoto'09 but not from Aperture 2. More I learn of Lightroom the more I'm starting to swing away from Aperture. Mind you Aperture does have a good workflow though. I'm going to have to go to PS CS4 (or CS5 if I can hold out) next year, so might look more at Lightroom then.

[matbor]

Didn't realise that was available in Lightroom. I can do it from iPhoto'09 but not from Aperture 2. More I learn of Lightroom the more I'm starting to swing away from Aperture. Mind you Aperture does have a good workflow though. I'm going to have to go to PS CS4 (or CS5 if I can hold out) next year, so might look more at Lightroom then.

Don't have a mac so can't comment on aperture, but Lightroom is fantastic. The export to flickr is a plugin that cost a couple of dollars but is very handy, even has one to facebook.

The only thing that lightroom is missing is the making of books, have seen examples of it done in aperture and it's amazing.

Matt.

[matbor]

Added a few more photos to the set, Vietnam - a set on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bordignon/sets/72157622712951917/)

And also did some timelapse with my old Canon Point and Shoot.
Nha Tran, Vietnam - Time Lapse of Beach area at sunrise. on Vimeo
Nha Tran, Vietnam - Time Lapse of Beach area at night. on Vimeo

Matt.