Very attractive image. I like the colors, the ripples in the water, and the positioning of the fish in the frame.
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 6:14 PM P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > Well I decided to reply to Igor with an old PESO of mine in the Fisheye > camera thread, and couldn't find the file, it must have gone missing > when I changed PESO locations on the web. So I looked for the original > file, and since with the current discussion of RAW converters I had > downloaded a couple of new "Free" versions figured why not processes the > old Ds RAW file in one of them. So here it is, "Not So Koi." originally > taken in 2007, newly rendered with RawTherapee 5.4. > > https://pdml.updog.co/webster26/PESO%20--%20Not%20so%20Koi.html > > Equipment: Pentax *ist Ds w/smc Pentax F 70-210mm f4.0~5.6. > > As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. > > Mini Review of Raw Therapee. > > My impression, is that RawTherapee has come a long way, as has my > computer, it operates almost smoothly on my 6 core AMD based PC. With > this image it gave a default rendering that was close to what you see > here. I only tweaked the white point, black point, and adjusted the > tone curve a little. > > I loaded the resulting tiff into Photoshop for a little post rendering > sharpening, thought with practice I could probably do that in > RawTherapee as well, and then added my water mark. > > I probably would have to use Photoshop for that anyway because Raw > Therapee doesn't seem to have a text tool, though I could be wrong about > that it seems to have everything else. > > Then resized for the web, did a final micro contrast enhancement, and > saved as a jpeg once again in Photoshop. > > My only Nit with RawTherapee is that it crashed while performing an > entirely unrelated task in a different directory. Not quite ready for > prime time. However for a free RAW processor, it's not bad at all. If > I wasn't already using DxO Optics Pro, I'd seriously consider it. > > -- > America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. > America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well please. > - P.J. O'Rourke > > > -- > 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.
