Yes, I underexposed to preserve the texture of the petals. i overdid it
a bit, although to handhold and preserve DOF, I needed every stop I
could get. This really should have been shot on a mini tripod. But it
was more or less a grab, and I didn't have time to fool around. The
grain here is more typical of ISO 800, and I might have been better off
shooting at ISO 800 with the same stop and shutter speed.
Paul
On Mar 12, 2006, at 9:00 AM, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Paul Stenquist wrote:
No grain. It's digital. Some digital noise in the shadows, which is
to be expected. It's at ISO 400 and exposed to preserve texture in
the bright white of the blossom petals. It could be cleaned up, but I
like the texturing that a bit of noise contributes. It's more of a
film look:-).
Thanks, I knew it was digital, just wondered if the medium is prone to
such noise. Is this underexposure then, so as to get the nice texture
on the petals?
Sorry I am focusing on the technical bits; I find the noise appealing
on the picture.
Kostas
Paul
On Mar 12, 2006, at 3:32 AM, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Paul Stenquist wrote:
Thanks Ken. It's as shot.. The painterly effect in the background
is just the nice boken of that classic Vivitar lens.
It is indeed a good shot. But I see something like grain. Is it
grain?
Kostas
On Mar 11, 2006, at 7:14 PM, Kenneth Waller wrote:
Nice capture Paul.
Was the painterly effect (which I reallyt' like) something you
achieved in the initial capture or was it obtained from PS?
Kenneth Waller
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Subject: PESO: My Spring Ritual
Every year I watch for the first bloom in my yard. It's always a
snowdrop, and it usually comes in mid March. The temperature
reached 60 F today, and the sun was out, so my snowdrops bloomed
a little early. It will be another week or two before we have
daffodils, but spring is here. This year I shot the snowdrop with
the *istD, the Vivitar 90/2.5 macro and the A2XS converter, ISO
400, 1/125, f5.6.
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4210286
