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The attached photo was taken in my son's garden on a recent autumnal morning. It is the first time that I have tried to use macro on my Panasonic DMC-FX01.I would appreciate any observations, and I would like a view as to whether it is worth/capable of 'blowing up' and framing? Should it be cropped?
Bill Birchall
Last edited by Ian; 24-11-08, 01:47 PM.
Reason: Changed image from thumbnail
The attached photo was taken in my son's garden on a recent autumnal morning. It is the first time that I have tried to use macro on my Panasonic DMC-FX01.I would appreciate any observations, and I would like a view as to whether it is worth/capable of 'blowing up' and framing? Should it be cropped?
Bill Birchall
Bill my wife uses an FX01 as does Autumn on this forum. They are both very pleased with them, though personally I feel the low light performance is not great. Anyway suffice to say we have an A3 print taken by the camera on our wall. All you need to do is make sure you have sized it to the correct dimension at 300ppi in Photoshop and you can't go wrong.
As for cropping, thats up to you, but my only comment would be if you could have cropped out the view of the fence when taking the pic it may have been better. Doing it now would obviously restrict how much you could enlarge it for printing without degrading the quality.
Bill, can I suggest 800 pixels wide for uploading to the gallery
I have changed your picture from a thumbnail to its posted size (1600x1200) and it's very large, but it also shows that you can crop to a smaller view concentrating on some of the better leaves with the water droplets.
Stephen
Thanks for your helpful comments. I am a bit confused about the suggested cropping of the fence. Ian seems to be suggesting that I can crop, but are you saying that I would lose quality in the process. As you can tell, I am very much a novice on the technical side.
Ian
Thanks for the suggestion of 800 pixels wide, but how do I do it?
Stephen
Thanks for your helpful comments. I am a bit confused about the suggested cropping of the fence. Ian seems to be suggesting that I can crop, but are you saying that I would lose quality in the process. As you can tell, I am very much a novice on the technical side.
Ian
Thanks for the suggestion of 800 pixels wide, but how do I do it?
Bill
Re-size to 800 pixels wide in your editing software. Which program do you use?
Bill it should be easy to find the Image Size command, probably in the Image menu. Once you find it the existing file dimensions in pixels should be there. If you change this to 800 wide 600 high it will reduce the size of your file, but make sure to resave it with a different name.
Bill it should be easy to find the Image Size command, probably in the Image menu. Once you find it the existing file dimensions in pixels should be there. If you change this to 800 wide 600 high it will reduce the size of your file, but make sure to resave it with a different name.
If you have an editing program, Photoshop or similar - you would open the image...zoom in on the area you wish to darken! Select a soft brush between 100 to 150 - go to dodge & burn in tool! Select burn! You can alter the degree of burning, about 20 to 30 maybe in midtones! Don't overdo it! Just burn in under one or two of the foreground leaves! Darken the shadows slightly between the leaves as well using either midtones or shadow! If using shadow its best to use quite a low degree of burning in! Then perhaps dodge a couple of highlights in! I think its something you need to experiment with, as it is mostly personal preference that counts! A little selective saturation in foreground leaves as well would not go amiss! Either that or adding a selective guassian blur to a couple of underneath leaves would give the impression of depth! Whilst in the selection, you could also then play with levels & saturation!
Jocelyn
Thanks for your Burn and Doge ideas. I have never used them before. I have tried the Burn function to emphasise the shadows but as it is my first attempt, I am not sure it was that successful.
mib2
Thanks for the encouragement and glad that you find the critique interesting, I certainly did.
Not bad for a first macro shot, but since you want observations, I have to say that it would have been better if you cleared out some of the drops from the other leaves just to create a concentrated field for the subject. It looks a bit crowded with all the drops from the other leaves.
I'm not an expert by the way, but I'm just being honest.
Not bad for a first macro shot, but since you want observations, I have to say that it would have been better if you cleared out some of the drops from the other leaves just to create a concentrated field for the subject. It looks a bit crowded with all the drops from the other leaves.
I'm not an expert by the way, but I'm just being honest.
Keep on clicking.
Hi - welcome to the site!
Nice to see a new face from the Philippines (my mother is from Leyte - my father is a Brit). I was in Manila last June.
Here is one from 8 years ago:
More info is on the gallery page - just click on the photo.
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