Shel - Which raw converter are you using? gs
On 9/3/05, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, i did something like you suggested, and the final results were
> better, although for the purpose of putting the images up I wanted to show
> them with no adjustments. I was hoping you'd comment. Thanks!
>
> Shel
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Paul Stenquist
>
> > They look very good to me. I might have pulled down the exposure a wee
> > bit in the converter (on both) and pushed up the brightness a bit to
> > bring the mid range back to where it was. That would give you a little
> > more shadow detail, equivalent mid range tones, and a tad less
> > highlight. If I lost any midrange separation, I would have upped the
> > contrast a little. Of course, the optimum look is highly subjective and
> > dependent to a great extent on the viewing monitor.
> > Paul
> > On Sep 3, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
> >
> > > Yesterday, while sitting in the garden, I grabbed a couple of shots of
> > > these leaves. The entire purpose of these exposures was to see if the
> > > camera worked, to use RAW, to see if there was any purple fringing
> > > because
> > > of contrast considerations, and to try to get an exposure that would
> > > show
> > > the shadows and dark areas nicely without frying the highlights.
> > >
> > > The lens was the 77mm Ltd, and it seems that there's no purple
> > > fringing in
> > > these shots. While technically the first exposure shows no fried
> > > highlights (couldn't find a spot that read higher than 253 in the
> > > bright
> > > areas) a second exposure, made with a 1/3 stop faster shutter speed
> > > looked
> > > a little better in the bright areas without loosing any detail in the
> > > darker areas.
> > >
> > > Both pics were converted to JPEG directly from the RAW image in
> > > Photoshop.
> > > No sharpening or adjustments of any sort.
> > >
> > > http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/test1.html
> > > 200 ISO, 1/250 sec, F8.0
> > >
> > >
> > > http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/test2.html
> > > 200 ISO, 1/350 sec, F8.0
> > >
> > > I think these two shots show what a great difference a small exposure
> > > adjustment can make - at least to my eyes and sensibilities. Looking
> > > forward to any comments of the technical quality of these two pics.
> > >
> > >
> > > Shel
> > >
> > >
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