Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Jim, I certainly like this one better. The sharpening artifacts bother me a little bit, but what bothers me more about the 'processed' shot are the too-smoothed areas on the butterfly's wings. To me they look like you had too much paint on your brush when you painted them. A great catch, in any case, whichever one you like. You have some great catches; I occasionally try to shoot butterflies and dragonflies, but it's HARD. A good friend of mine locally, now 82, has had 30 years of fairly intensive butterfly shooting, often going to other countries for the purpose. Around here I sometimes go out with him and I watch and try to learn from him. He now uses a small sensor 'superzoom' Panasonic mostly and occasionally a m43 with 100-300. These aren't for selling or big presentation prints as he says; at best 8x10's for himself and to see how his digital shots compare with his film shots. Henning On 2012-09-05, at 5:11 PM, Jim Nichols wrote: > George, > > Here is a slightly larger crop from the image that I posted today. Aside > from the usual presets that I use in the RAW converter, I made no other > changes. It was converted to 16-bit jpg, cropped, resized, and converted > to 8-bit jpg. > > I await your comments. I always like to find ways to improve. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Unprocessed+72.jpg.html > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Lottermoser" <imagist3 at > mac.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 6:36 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Old Lens, New B'fly > > >> >> On Sep 5, 2012, at 6:30 PM, Jim Nichols wrote: >> >>> Thanks, George. I have to admit that I had no intention of using the >>> 5MB E-1 to shoot butterflies, which, of necessity, usually requires a >>> lot of cropping. I was trying to get some flower images when I noticed >>> the b'flies. >> >> If you have a spare moment some time >> >> I'd like to see one of these (that I find over processed) >> as a minimally processed image. >> cropped to your liking >> but >> without any sharpening >> without any noise reduction >> without much of anything >> other than crop and color as you like them >> >> >> Regards, >> George Lottermoser >> george at imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com/blog >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Henning Wulff henningw at archiphoto.com