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March 09, 2006
This Yellow Flower is a Daffodil
Posted by the Robot Vegetable at March 9, 2006 07:16 AM
Comments
WOW! New macrolens? WOW!
Posted by: Kat at March 9, 2006 10:27 AM
Beautiful photograph veg! I would use different USM settings because I see "halos" that are artifacts of the USM process. These halos are "bright outlines" noticeable around the edges of the flower.
I have good luck using the following USM settings:
Amount: 100-300% ( experiment with this.. if setting is too high you get halos ).
Radius: .4 to .7
Threshold: 0
Also, you can sometimes get better results running multiple USM passes with the above settings with a smaller Amount setting such as 50% or so run three times.
I'm very much digging your recent photographs.. Nice that the plants are blooming!
Posted by: Jim at March 9, 2006 11:02 AM
All of the macro shots are taken w/ a pentax *ist DS with the stock lens. (All the details are on the about page.) It's just an exceptional camera; I don't know that it's the pentax in contrast to other digitals, or digitals in contrast to film, but I can pull much better closeup pictures with this than I can with my film pentax superprogram.
I tend to focus on composition to the detriment of technical quality, and so I think that suto focus, built in flash, and a huge image to pick frames from has made me a better photographer.
Thanks, Jim! I'm getting a good feel for this camera, having shot a few thousand frames. I'm not having to rethink what I see, recalibarte away from what the film will do. I'm kinda back to the simple photoshop stuff since my scanners been offline. I worked at it a bit this evening, actually got a button to make the scanner act like it was scanning, but no result. Alas. I just don't have the same motivation when I'm not actively doing Far Cartouche stuff.
Posted by: the Robot Vegetable at March 13, 2006 08:14 PM