[dwaugh]

Flower pictures again, a sure sign of Spring.

That's it for now, may have more later.

 

[mobius]

More light. Underexposed to much.

 

[splat]

More light. Underexposed to much.

way too darkl

 

[MMike]

Tsk tsk....the title of this thread end with a preposition. This is something up with which I will not put.

 

[fluff]

Just needs a little fill-in flash to brighten it up.

Tsk tsk....the title of this thread end with a preposition. This is something up with which I will not put.

MMike - here's your missing 's'.

 

[binary visions]

Those guys need some serious post processing, dwaugh

Hope you don't mind, but I liked the glint of light at the bottom of #3, added something to the picture for me, so I took a stab (just a quickie, only spent about a minute on it). Is this a little more like it looked?

I tried to give it a little unsharp mask but after it's saved into JPG the unsharp mask really brings out the JPG artifacts so I didn't keep it.

edit: all I did to it was a color correction to get rid of the blue color cast, darkened the highlights to give it a more even tone, and boosted the contrast a bit. Again, an unsharp mask really makes the texture and pattern on the flowers "pop" but that needs to be done on the original.

 

[BigMike]

OK, i'm kinda dumb, so what exactly does unsharp mask do? And do you have to do it to a RAW image as opposed to a JPEG?

 

[binary visions]

OK, i'm kinda dumb, so what exactly does unsharp mask do? And do you have to do it to a RAW image as opposed to a JPEG?

A much better explanation than I can give:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/understanding-series/understanding-usm.shtml

No, you don't have to do it to a RAW file, but you want to do it to a mostly-uncompressed file, since once you introduce the JPG artifacts into the image, the unsharp mask (and, in fact, any kind of sharpening) tends to sharpen the edges of the artifacts and it makes them stand out more.

 

[narlus]

BV, do you shoot in RAW or JPG?

 

[binary visions]

BV, do you shoot in RAW or JPG?

My Sony won't do RAW. It'll do uncompressed TIFFs but it takes too long to write them.

I will have to think long and hard when I finally buy a dSLR as to whether I will shoot JPG or RAW. I love the idea of RAW but there are some disadvantages.

 

[The Toninator]

nice, i took some with my sony w50 recently. still getting used to this point and shoot digial thing

 

[The Toninator]

oops kitty had to go.

 

[rigidhack]

Interesting historical fact:

In Victorian England there was an enormous horticultural craze, especially for orchids. Women were not permitted to look at the flower as it was considered "overly erotic."

Better title - Victorian Porn

 

[stinkyboy]

Georgia OKeeffe liked vaginas too.