Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Henning. I can imagine the limitations now felt by your friend. I am also 82. I appreciate your comments on the images. I have learned a lot from the comments that I have received on this one. I will try to put the suggestions to good use. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henning Wulff" <henningw at archiphoto.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 7:22 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Old Lens, New B'fly > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >