dpastern
15-11-2009, 01:23 AM
From a year ago, finally got around to processing them. Not entirely happy with the shots, I've blown the white highlights on her facial hair. I couldn't quite get the lighting the way that I wanted with the flash mounted on the camera hotshoe. Should have gotten my flash bracket, but alas, I was lazy. This was taken at 1:1 - you can see she was a large Jumper (this shot was taken with a Mark IIn, which has a 1.3x crop sensor - 28 x 18mm).
Dave
edit: the first image was a bit underexposed, had to pull it out by half a stop in RAW (I always shoot RAW). I don't usually use highlight and shadows in Photoshop, but I do admit to using it on this image, as well as my usual contrast and hue/sat adjustments. For those curious about sharpening, I tend to be quite unaggressive with my sharpening, usually using smart sharpen, 0.3 pixel, 53% on the main image, and sharpening on resize as well, although I vary the sharpening amount on a per image basis. I sometimes will use smart sharpen on the full size main image, and USM on the resized image - I tend to use the tools that Photoshop offers with the image's best IQ in mind. Never overcook a macro image with over sharpening - it's a very obvious look and doesn't look pretty. I learnt that very early on ;-)
Dave
edit: the first image was a bit underexposed, had to pull it out by half a stop in RAW (I always shoot RAW). I don't usually use highlight and shadows in Photoshop, but I do admit to using it on this image, as well as my usual contrast and hue/sat adjustments. For those curious about sharpening, I tend to be quite unaggressive with my sharpening, usually using smart sharpen, 0.3 pixel, 53% on the main image, and sharpening on resize as well, although I vary the sharpening amount on a per image basis. I sometimes will use smart sharpen on the full size main image, and USM on the resized image - I tend to use the tools that Photoshop offers with the image's best IQ in mind. Never overcook a macro image with over sharpening - it's a very obvious look and doesn't look pretty. I learnt that very early on ;-)