On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 12:00:50AM -0400, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > well those landscape shots are all well and good but I like the > little ground squirrel the best :-) > > http://www.jfwaf.com/Yosemite/image.php?name=Yosemite_15
Larry has a shot of the little guy, too, in a slightly better pose. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/5992231803/in/photostream/ > And the rattler, too - just getting him in that pose... would love > to see you work on that image a bit to bring out his face .. Pure luck - that's how he was when we first saw him. (That's a pretty heavy crop from the original framing, even at 250mm). I'm still learning my way around Adobe Camera Raw & friends. I've only had a decent monitor for a few months, and so until then the finer details of colour and midrange contrast weren't that easy to see (although I didn't realise how bad my older setup was until I got the new monitor). It's apparent that Larry's presets end up with a warmer tone than what I'm using. At the very least I should get round to upgrading to LR3 (which I've been meaning to do for a while), and maybe eeve do some tests with the ColorChecker(tm) which I recently unearthed. Another good (albeit demoralising) technique is to compare my rendering with the in-camera JPEGs from the Olympus EPL-1. In fact one of the shots with that little camera is possibly the most interesting shot from the trip: http://www.jfwaf.com/Yosemite/image.php?name=EPL10299 I love the way the skyline is mirrored by the shape of the trees. I wish I could take credit for spotting this at the time, but the truth is that I only noticed it after I got home and took a look at the uploaded images on the computer. -- 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.
