On May 4, 2014, at 10:09 AM, Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote: > Excellent!
Thanks Tim, Bob, Jack and all who looked. It’s fun to revisit old shots with improved software and skills for reprocessing them. > > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Last night I pulled the birthday present cop out of letting a friend choose >> a photo (or two) out of my portfolio. One of the prints was one I did >> several years, and generations of lightroom ago. To replace the print, I >> reprocessed the photo. After I got the print back from costco, I went back >> and massaged it a bit more. >> >> I was driving home from Texas and pulled over to take a nap. When I woke up >> (probably about 2:30 rather than the 12:30 the exif shows because of my not >> resetting time zones) there was lightning off in the distance. I set up my >> camera on a tripod with my 77/1.8 and started taking 20 second exposures. >> For one of the exposures, I got several lightning strikes. >> >> The photo "straight out of the camera" was pretty cool: >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/13915457390/in/set-72157644505096665 >> Having Lightroom automatically adjust the exposure made a definite >> improvement: >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/14078952556/in/set-72157644505096665 >> My first reprocessing attempt gave it a lot more pop: >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/13915393947/in/set-72157644505096665 >> But, I wasn't entirely satisfied with it. After a bit more work, I've got: >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/13915456818/in/set-72157644505096665 >> >> K20D, FA77 f/1.8 20 seconds >> >> I’m still not entirely satisfied with it, but I think that I’ve made some >> improvments. Further suggestions are most welcome. >> >> The above post was motivated because a friend talked me into joining her >> photo critique group on facebook. There’s one woman out in White Plains who >> keeps asking “Why do I need to shoot raw and learn computers to post >> process? Why can’t I just get it right in my camera and have it turn out >> right like I used to do with my Leica M4?”. >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > - Tim Bray (If you’d like to send me a private message, see > https://keybase.io/timbray) > > -- > 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. -- 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.
