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
