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Images => Nature, Flora, Fauna & Landscapes => Topic started by: Akira on October 02, 2016, 11:39:35
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All are in full bloom.
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#4 great one
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Thank you, Fons!
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I like 4, 5 and 6.
Thank you!
Dave
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Dave, glad you like them!
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Very well done!
Lens?
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I love #4494. It leaves generous space for imagination!
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I love #4494. It leaves generous space for imagination!
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My fav as well. Nice series Akira. Looks very colorful out there.
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I like them on Facebook already 8)
The first butterfly is very confusing, I always get drawn to the fake eyes on the back of the wings :)
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Akira - Nice shots, thanks for posting. The butterflies are mostly gone in these parts.
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Very well done!
Lens?
Thanks, Andrew. All images were shot with the humble AF-S 50/1.8G, and cropped to various degrees. The closeups of the butterflies were cropped quite heavily. The camera was D750 set at ISO200.
I love #4494. It leaves generous space for imagination!
Frank and Anirban, I also like this kind of images for the same reason. Thanks for kind comments.
I like them on Facebook already 8)
The first butterfly is very confusing, I always get drawn to the fake eyes on the back of the wings :)
Yup, thanks for "like it" over there. :) The butterfly is fairly common in Japan, but I'd never noticed that fake until I clopped the imges. :D
Tom, glad you like them. They were busy in sucking nectar for their last bit tusks...
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a nice short study series. Mongo likes #4 and 5 best.
#5 is probably the best of them because it has so many different points of appeal in the one image. BTW , the colour in these is great.
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Mongo, thanks!
After some discussion in another thread, I found that Adobe Standard color profile is applied in ACR regardless of the Picture Control settings in the camera. So, I experimented with the Picture Control pulldown menu in ACR before I adjust exposure, contrast, etc. I fouind that the Picture Control did amazing job and makes the post process very easy.
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Great series Akira
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Thanks, Armando!
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Very nice! I like #4 and #5; #5 especially for the contrast between orange and blue, a favourite colour pairing for me. The orange colour of these flowers reminds me of the intense orange of California poppies (Eschscholzia californica (not a botanist, I had to look that up)). I find those a challenge to photograph in strong sunlight. Under auto-exposure the red channel will often clip by a full stop or more at the camera's preferred exposure, which flattens out a lot of detail in the bright orange petals. To bring the red channel back within range, I have to under-expose the photo overall by a corresponding amount. I guess this may be happening with the dark greens in #1-#3 and the deep blue of the sky in #6. They remind me of the beautiful intense reds and yellows I used to be able to get by slightly underexposing ektachrome slide film.
Cheers, John
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John, thanks for sharing your insight and analysis.
Indeed putting the red channel under control was tricky. And you are right about the underexposure of dark green and blue sky: the blue channel crushed to the left wall of the histogram. I raised the shadow control to recover the blue channel to some extent, but I chose to stay with the tonal balance that I liked. All images were shot at ISO 200, and the wide dynamic range of D750 seemed to have helped a bit to keep the color under control.
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Mongo, thanks!
After some discussion in another thread, I found that Adobe Standard color profile is applied in ACR regardless of the Picture Control settings in the camera. So, I experimented with the Picture Control pulldown menu in ACR before I adjust exposure, contrast, etc. I fouind that the Picture Control did amazing job and makes the post process very easy.
was not aware of this. Great info and very useful. Big thanks Akira.
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was not aware of this. Great info and very useful. Big thanks Akira.
You are welcome, Mongo. I also remembered that my pro photog friend had said that the in-camera JPEG was hard to beat by processing RAW by oneself. To me, it turned out to be quite true.