Nice images and colors look natural. Did you do any tonal correction, color correction, sharpening?
Thanks Ramesh --- Rob Studdert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Team, > > I finally managed to get out in the bush for a few > hours yesterday to test > shoot with my new *ist D and I've just finished > assembling a small gallery of > the results. Be warned the gallery contains images > of flowers but since they > are all local indigenous varieties in their natural > habitat it could be > considered as a botanical study :-) > > I decided to keep the afternoon casual by just > venturing out with the camera > and a single fixed lens. The only other items that I > took were a spare set of > freshly charged batteries that I didn't have to use > in any case (battery life > seems pretty good from my limited experience to > date). > > My trusty old SMCP A50/2.8 Macro was the lens of > choice for the day. It was > pretty windy so a tripod was of little use and since > I had no intention of > stuffing around with flash or reflectors I figured > that it would give me the > best compromise for DOF vs shutter speed at the > cameras lowest EI of 200. > > So all the shots in this gallery are hand held and > most are shot with the wind > tossing the subjects about, nearly all are of > acceptable sharpness but many > could have benefited from deeper DOF. The A50/2.8 > macro has sufficient > sharpness that only from f11 to f22 is some > softening visible when shooting in > conjunction with the *ist D and at all aperture it > shows very little chromatic > aberration at the edges of the frame. > > Most shots were made at macro ranges and one was > shot 1:1, all images were shot > at EI200 and at the Daylight WB setting in order to > preserve colour accuracy. I > had full sun all afternoon so the shots were either > made in full sun or in the > shadows of the surrounding foliage. The colour or > contrast of the gallery > images hasn't been modified. The EXIF exposure data > has been retained in the > resized images for anyone who would like to view > shutter/aperture details. > > Since I don't yet have my portable mass media > storage solutions in place as yet > I was forced to save the images in camera as minimum > compression jpg files. > Upon reviewing my images on my work-station I now > appreciate the need to shoot > in RAW mode when using the *ist D. The image > highlights appear to saturate far > earlier than I was used to when I shot with my old > Oly E-10, I guess the *ist D > must have a harder curve in its transform > algorithms. > > Overall I'm fairly satisfied with the camera from an > image capture stand-point > although I know now that I'll definitely end up > shooting RAW most of the time > and I do miss using the lens aperture ring. Also > regardless of the finder mag I > did find it somewhat less friendly to focus than my > LX or MZ-S bodies. The FL > mag has me now wishing for a nice new wide AL macro > lens too :-) > > Comments and unbridled criticism welcome. > > http://www.home.aone.net.au/audiobias/wildflowers/ > > Cheers, > > > Rob Studdert > HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA > Tel +61-2-9554-4110 > UTC(GMT) +10 Hours > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ > Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
