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I have recently moved from Olympus to Nikon and am finding the learning curve steep, not helped by a 500 manual ! This afternoon I took the camera with me when walking the dogs and attempted to put into practice some of the things I thought I had learned from reading the book !
Hi Bear, thanks for sharing these shots. I'm pretty sure you would be the first to agree that you have taken these under very harsh and contrasty conditions, and it does them no favours. However they are interesting and pleasing compositions that I wouldn't be unhappy taking myself.
My personal feeling is that they don't show us what "Old Spikey" can do so whats your opinion, would your E3 have done a better job or indeed a different job?
Thanks for showing these. I think you would agree you are getting there. You have lots at your disposal now and I'm sure you will have the camera and lenses singing for you pretty quickly. You have so much light where you are and you have mastered that very well with the E-3, and I'm sure you will be showing us the work you are so good at.
Thanks for the commenta. The Nikon does behave differently to the E3 and as a result I am pretty sure I am going to have to change both my style of shooting and processing. Nothing serious just need some more experience. The light can be harsh here especially on cold spring days and today was one of them - no excuse though. Good feedback so thank you all. Barr1e I don't think the E3 would have done a better or worse job in these circumstances, just different. perhaps, given my three years with the E3 the results would have been better though - no substitue for experience !
I don't usually post criticism on the photos of others for two reasons; a. I'm probably not qualified, b. I don't want to offend anybody, but I feel I must here.
I have to say that in my opinion no Nikon DSLR, even on default settings, would produce pictures as harsh as these, and I think that they are suffering from an excess of post-processing. I have no idea what camera or software you are using but the second one in particular, by the halo effect down the trunk of the tree is showing that probably too much clarity was applied.
Have you tried comparing them to jpegs produced by the camera, or the Nikon software?
Hey Roger - I am not easily offended so don't worry. In this case I agree with you. I never shoot JPEG, but that isn't the point. Whatever I was trying to do with the PP just was frankly wrong. Early days though and you always learn more from getting things wrong than you do getting them right !
I have just reviewed the original NEF's (developed in ACR 5.7) and conclude the following.
No.1 is OK it is along the lines of what I was trying to achieve but perhaps a little overdone on the contrast. I purposely wanted extra contrast with a view to converting it to B&W to better show the texture. I suspect, however, that I should have either 1.) shown the converted picture or modified the contrast in the B&W version and posted a more sympathetic colour one.
No.2 is an unmitigated disaster. It shows what happens when you just fiddle with no real idea of what you want to achieve and why. The original is pretty awful too and it should never have made it to the forum.
No.3 is OK it is sharp enough where it matters with a nicely isolated subject that shows the beginning of the sunset. Nothing to write home about composition-wise though. Just ordinary.
No.4 I tried too hard to rescue a picture that was not good enough in the beginnning but I liked anyway. It is a little over the top. I think I pretty much got it right if everything is toned down by about 20%.
No.5 similar to No.4 but the raw material was even worse. The idea I still like but it doesn't work.
No.6 works pretty well, I have not processed this one much, it is reasonably true to the original and demonstrates the powerful late evening sun we sometimes get here. It is not a particularly good photograph but it does show Milo well ! a Little over-staurated maybe, with the ground behind blown out. Need to understand how and when to use Active D Lighting I reckon.
thanks Josh - I always find it interesting how people react, and often this is the most important part of seeking critique, different perspectives. I am generally not particularly pleased with this set but the purpose of posting it has been met. Posted elsewhere many of the pictures received extremely positive responses - odd and intriguing at the same time !
Maybe the posting order helps or hinders. Certainly of the the set and IMHO, one and two are the ones that look either too contrasty or over processed. From there the look gets better.
Tried again ! Walking the dogs - again. Went for a more natural look letting the camera do more of the work. Very little PP to most except cropping. No sharpening and no messing with contrast !
Wow. Those are much better IMHO. Number one and two are my fav. Particulary like number two with the flowers in the background leaning the opposite way to the main subject.
If you were looking for a comparison to your olympus then maybe no pp and straight off the cam pictures would be more suitable. I can understand your excitment of the new cam but you have to start off on a baseline, the pp comes later when you have learned what the camera is capable of on its own. Which nikon have you purchased?
Ash.
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