Handsome flower.. I think the post processing really adds to it. Like how the details seems to appear on the bud (I'd personally like a stop or two more exposure, but that's just me). I'm also not too sure about what dropping the background to black did to the leaves though. Might just be my monitor, but there are black patches on some leaves too. Just out of curiosity, what's the sharpest image you can get out of a *ist D (or any other digislr for that matter) w/out post processing? Can you actually get crispy images like you would on film? Nothing against the medium, but I just find it unsettling how it seems one would be almost expected to touch up digital shots in PS. Especially something like sharpness (because then wouldn't the gap between sharp lenses and not as sharp lenses become relatively negligible?) I haven't really put much thought into this, but it suddenly popped into my mind.. Any thoughts?
Ryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "alex wetmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:30 AM Subject: *ist D image: lily > We have this nice lily sitting on our coffee table so I took some > photographs of it last night. I had never had much luck getting a > black background behind an image, but this worked out okay. I used > the Pentax *ist D and either a 50/1.4 or 90/2.5 lens (I wasn't keeping > notes on which lenses were used for which shots and since these aren't > F or FA lenses the camera doesn't know). The onboard flash was used > for lighting. You can see reflections from it in a few places. f/16 > gave good depth of field while remaining sharp. Shutter speed was > 1/150 (sync speed of the camera) and I shot at ISO 200. > > http://phred.org/~alex/pictures/pentax-istd/reduced/lily.jpg is what I > ended up with post processing. The processing was to drop the > background to full black, remove a few highlights, crop, rotate, and a > little sharpening. > > http://phred.org/~alex/pictures/pentax-istd/lily-original.jpg shows > what I started with. The only processing here was to resize the > file. > > I was impressed at how good the TTL control was for closeup images. I > always had poor luck using the flash for closeups when using other > camera systems. I think that this shot would have been better with > another flash to try and soften the shadows. > > I really like this camera. > > alex > >
