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Re: [OM] Photos: Birds, Bees, Butterflies

Subject: Re: [OM] Photos: Birds, Bees, Butterflies
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayne.harridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 13:08:44 +1000
A great collection of images there Joel!

...Wayne


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> Subject: [OM] Photos: Birds, Bees, Butterflies
> 
> I thought I would show some work after a very fun August.  I've been
retired
> a while, my wife is newly retired, and we've been running around doing
> things together like a couple of kids.  Our city's parks and rec plowed up
> green spaces and planted prairie plants -- a bit of Canada rye and
bluestem
> grasses but mainly asters.  Meanwhile, we got some blossoms from the
> buddleia we planted last fall and bought a few more buddleias, now in the
> ground, that we kept on the deck for their fragrance while they were still
> actively blooming.  So I didn't really have to venture far for the
following
> photos.  I'd recommend zipping through them quickly, but do let me know if
> any cause you to linger.
> 
> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=23956&g2_page=1
> 
> Technical notes:  probably most photos were captured through my mZ 100-
> 400 in either my EM-1iii or Pen-F.  I find both cameras about the same as
to
> end results, but they are very different in use.  Over the course of the
> summer I got a mZ 12-200, but I don't think any photos with that lens are
> represented here.  Many if not most of these photos are sizable crops.
> 
> The cameras are new to me in the last year, so I have been refining my
> settings with use.  I use OM Workspace for raw conversion, usually just
> passing them through to PS, but occasionally adjusting gamma a bit or
muting
> colors if the "natural" settings blocks up yellows or reds too much.
Because
> "raw" is not completely raw, noise filter settings can only be changed in
the
> camera, not in OMW (at least as far as I can find), so some captures had a
bit
> more noise filtering than I have come to like.  I pass the converted TIFs,
after
> modest process -- mainly levels and possibly some H/S balancing, some edge
> burning as desired -- through Topaz DeNoise and Sharpening AI.  I run
these
> programs in batch as much as possible.
> It's quite possible that managing more per photo might render a better
> result, but I've been mainly focused on shooting.  Computer work is for
long
> winter nights, which will be here soon enough.  Sorry -- long-winded as
usual.
> Thanks to Ke Norton for giving the gallery space and maintaining it!
> 
> Joel W.
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