I'm not a huge fan of flowers, but these have a distinctive painterly quality
to them. I can easily visualize some of them printed on expensive fine art
paper and confusing hell out of gallery goers. (Which is not, all in all, a bad
thing. <g>)
--Bob
On Mar 11, 2013, at 8:20 AM, DZDub wrote:
> Thanks, Chris and Philippe, for looking further than required, and for the
> kind remarks.
>
> Philippe, the lens is my Zuiko 90/2, which is prized for he qualities you
> note. I have other close-focusing lenses that beat it for sharpness, but
> all of qualties of the 90/2 en toto often produce a pleasant result. This
> is true whether mounted on an E camera or on the 5D. Somehow I prefer it
> without the crop factor.
>
> I had not yet switched to any version of Photoshop more recent that 8.0
> (the original CS) until last summer, so these were processed with that.
> Fairly minimal processing -- just levels, a bit of saturation maybe, a
> curve or two, and sharpening. That old version of PS seems like a hatchet
> compared to PS6!
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