Actually, i did something like you suggested, and the final results were better, although for the purpose of putting the images up I wanted to show them with no adjustments. I was hoping you'd comment. Thanks!
Shel > [Original Message] > From: Paul Stenquist > They look very good to me. I might have pulled down the exposure a wee > bit in the converter (on both) and pushed up the brightness a bit to > bring the mid range back to where it was. That would give you a little > more shadow detail, equivalent mid range tones, and a tad less > highlight. If I lost any midrange separation, I would have upped the > contrast a little. Of course, the optimum look is highly subjective and > dependent to a great extent on the viewing monitor. > Paul > On Sep 3, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > > Yesterday, while sitting in the garden, I grabbed a couple of shots of > > these leaves. The entire purpose of these exposures was to see if the > > camera worked, to use RAW, to see if there was any purple fringing > > because > > of contrast considerations, and to try to get an exposure that would > > show > > the shadows and dark areas nicely without frying the highlights. > > > > The lens was the 77mm Ltd, and it seems that there's no purple > > fringing in > > these shots. While technically the first exposure shows no fried > > highlights (couldn't find a spot that read higher than 253 in the > > bright > > areas) a second exposure, made with a 1/3 stop faster shutter speed > > looked > > a little better in the bright areas without loosing any detail in the > > darker areas. > > > > Both pics were converted to JPEG directly from the RAW image in > > Photoshop. > > No sharpening or adjustments of any sort. > > > > http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/test1.html > > 200 ISO, 1/250 sec, F8.0 > > > > > > http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/test2.html > > 200 ISO, 1/350 sec, F8.0 > > > > I think these two shots show what a great difference a small exposure > > adjustment can make - at least to my eyes and sensibilities. Looking > > forward to any comments of the technical quality of these two pics. > > > > > > Shel > > > >
