Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Doug, I think this is also one of the situations where the Canon is letting me down a little too, albeit at ISO 800, I'm getting very strong coloured fringes along the bottom edge of the twig, and around the leaves, I wonder how 800 film would have reacted to the very strong backlight. I think I may try it again with spot metering on one of the birds. What did very pleasantly surprise me was the resolution of the tail feathers of the left-hand bird when I looked at the full resolution image, the (around) $200 I forked out for the Novoflex seems to be well invested, its performance wide open is quite astounding, the accuracy of the pistol-grip focussing is really spot-on - and it let me use 1/1600th too. cheers Douglas BTW I'm trying out my recently acquired chrome SL and an absolutely gorgeous 135/2,8 Elmarit-R this week,I already know the performance from the M version so I'm looking forward to getting some pin-sharp slides from this one too. Doug Herr wrote: > on 6/6/05 2:09 AM, Douglas Sharp at douglas.sharp@gmx.de wrote: > > >>Hello all, >>I've been trying to get some more light and colour into this rather drab >>shot. >>Shooting parameters: Canon 20D + Novoflex 5,6/400mm at 5,6, ISO 800 >> >>For the first time I've been using "color dodge" and some other >>paint-brush functions in PS Elements 3.0, and, to be honest, I'm not >>quite sure if it works. >>Any suggestions on how to do it better or another method would be more >>than welcome. I tried "shadow/highlight" correction but it didn't look >>right to me. >> >>Original cropped frame >>http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/Tits >>Tight crop and processing >>http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/Tight_crop >> > > > > Doug, > > IME this lighting is very difficult to work with because flare caused by > the > extremely bright background washes out the color in the subject. I'd > imagine the Novoflex would be one of the better options in this lighting > condition because it has only two air/glass interfaces but internal > baffling > and blackening has a significant role too. > > I think you've done as well as can be expected given the lighting, and > cropping the extraneous background helps. Flare unfortunately keeps it > from > being as colorful as it could be. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >