A warm day today, in a rather long and disheartening winter. It might be too early to get excited, but I can’t help it. This winter has been tough on the people who love long days and flip flops. Apparently we set a record.
This image is one from last spring. It is a single exposure HDR. Normally I have great results, however because I was shooting at 800 ISO the processing introduced some noise. You can see it if you look close. Hopefully soon I will have the chance to make another image like this one. Bulb season isn’t too far off!
Recently, I published the toolset within my darkroom. I also published a list of tunes I listen to while I am clicking, sliding, dragging and dropping my way to victory. I had so much fun making that playlist, I have decided to publish one every month. So, without further ado (sp?)……here is the myTunes playlist for the month of March! Just click the link below.
(Note: You will need iTunes installed on your machine to access it.)
March 2010 LightAsMagic.com myTunes Dark Room Victory Songs
Capture Notes:
Nikon D300
Nikkor 105 2.8 AFS VR Micro
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1000)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 105 mm
ISO Speed: 800
Processing Notes:
Capture (1 Image)
Photomatix (pseudo hdr)
PS (color corrected)
NIk ColorFX Pro (selective tonal contrast on main flower)
Nik Define 2.0 (brushed noise reduction on fence)
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Justin -
Wonderful image. Superb saturation/vibrance with nice dof work!
Jeff
Thanks Jeff!
I think I will try another process on it. I was thinking about the noise issue and realized I can eliminate most of the noise by converting to a .TIFF first, and reduce noise during the RAW conversion process. After that is done, I will tonemap it. If it works out, I will post my results.
I am shooting a D300 and it is pretty noise free up to 800. If I was shooting the 700, I could have shot this star light without any issues!