On the morning of November 1, the light was subdued by a moderately heavy fog. I thought perhaps it was a good time to shoot my front lawn in macro, since the harshly contrasting shadows of bright sunlight would not be something I'd have to adjust the G2's settings for--the fog was veiling the rays of the sun that fall on this lawn about an hour after sunrise.
A red dogwood leaf had been blown by the wind near this mushroom cap. Here's what the camera caught. I enhanced the image in LightZone by reducing the noise--pushed the radius slider as far as it would go and also pushed the color intensity as far as it would go--and downsizing it.
I put it into Irfanview to get a copyright notice on it and uploaded it to my Flickr account. I'm embedding the image here:
Mushroom With Dogwood Leaf
I sent the RAW files of this photo to Stuart Rae, because he has been counseling me by PM e-mail about my macro photos. His rendition brightens the image so that it looks almost like the same little scene appeared to my eyes on the morning of November 2, in bright sunlight.
And, since I was already in correspondence with Joe Russo about the trees I shot in the fog of this same morning, I sent him the RAW files of the mushroom/leaf image, too. He applied a bit of sharpening to the image--which, he said, had the unexpected effect of making the colors "pop."
I have uploaded both Stuart's and Joe's renditions to Flickr. They may be seen in my gallery there at these links:
Stuart Rae's rendition:
http://static.flickr.com/110/288378645_673fcaee74_o.jpg
Joe Russo's rendition:
http://static.flickr.com/102/289279371_3f158fa105.jpg
I will be happy to supply the RAW files, if anyone else would like to work with this image.
Or you are welcome to modify my embedded jpeg from this post.
Critiques and suggestions for improvement will be most welcome.
Mary
A red dogwood leaf had been blown by the wind near this mushroom cap. Here's what the camera caught. I enhanced the image in LightZone by reducing the noise--pushed the radius slider as far as it would go and also pushed the color intensity as far as it would go--and downsizing it.
I put it into Irfanview to get a copyright notice on it and uploaded it to my Flickr account. I'm embedding the image here:
Mushroom With Dogwood Leaf
I sent the RAW files of this photo to Stuart Rae, because he has been counseling me by PM e-mail about my macro photos. His rendition brightens the image so that it looks almost like the same little scene appeared to my eyes on the morning of November 2, in bright sunlight.
And, since I was already in correspondence with Joe Russo about the trees I shot in the fog of this same morning, I sent him the RAW files of the mushroom/leaf image, too. He applied a bit of sharpening to the image--which, he said, had the unexpected effect of making the colors "pop."
I have uploaded both Stuart's and Joe's renditions to Flickr. They may be seen in my gallery there at these links:
Stuart Rae's rendition:
http://static.flickr.com/110/288378645_673fcaee74_o.jpg
Joe Russo's rendition:
http://static.flickr.com/102/289279371_3f158fa105.jpg
I will be happy to supply the RAW files, if anyone else would like to work with this image.
Or you are welcome to modify my embedded jpeg from this post.
Critiques and suggestions for improvement will be most welcome.
Mary
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