This is how a soft focus lens renders bright areas. The wider the aperture, the more softened and highlights tend to halo like that.
So no, post processing consisted only of very minor brightening, minor contrast increase. That's it. -- Best regards, Bruce Friday, June 11, 2010, 8:33:12 PM, you wrote: BW> On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:26 -0700, "Bruce Dayton" BW> <[email protected]> wrote: >> This shot was taken in my backyard recently when the lighting was >> reasonably diffused. >> >> Pentax K20D, F 85/2.8 Soft >> ISO 100, 1/640 sec @ f/4.5 >> >> http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkdphoto_00810.htm >> BW> Great subtle lighting there. I'm just wondering if the diffuse halo BW> around the flower was done in post. BW> Cheers BW> Brian BW> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ BW> Brian Walters BW> Western Sydney Australia BW> http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ BW> -- BW> -- BW> http://www.fastmail.fm - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

