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Subject: [Leica] Was A nice pair/Digital Schmutz.....New edit
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Sun Apr 23 15:26:57 2006
References: <444BB32F.2070003@gmx.de> <20060423211133.GA20211@panix.com> <444BF7D5.3020007@gmx.de>

I hope this is a little better - re-edited, and a new crop - it doesn't 
quite get rid of all the noise (NR and sharpen in NeatImage), and I 
removed a colour cast too. (DCEtools plug-in)
http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3785_edited_2
Douglas


Douglas Sharp wrote:

> Hello Rei,
> The shot is cropped out of the centre of a frame shot in very low 
> light earlier this evening, although it was shot with 800 I still had 
> to shift the exposure by another 1.5 stops (I suppose that makes it 
> somewhere between 1600 and 3200 equivalent) )to get the bird correctly 
> exposed, I'm looking into doing some more processing on it to see if I 
> can get the noise out of the shadows, and maybe darken them a little, 
> without affecting the bird itself. The lens used was not one of the 
> best offerings from Canon, a 28-135 zoom, and used very nearly wide 
> open (f6.3) so it's really a borderline shot. But, that said, I was in 
> fact quite pleased with the shot of the bird picking insects out of 
> the vine.
> I have about 4 different noise reduction processes on my PC , so I'll 
> see which works best, some of the effect may even be from sharpening 
> without having applied any NR - we shall see tomorrow.
> regards from Hannover
> Douglas
>
>
> Rei Shinozuka wrote:
>
>> the first photo is especially nice.  one of the first things that
>> caught my eye, however, was the odd texture noticable in the out of
>> focus areas.  it is like placing a sheet of frosted glass over the 
>> print,
>> or perhaps a bit of film reticulation. 
>> is it just 800 ASA digital schmutz from the camera?
>>
>>
>> -rei
>>
>> On Apr23 19:02, Douglas Sharp wrote:
>> ..
>>  
>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3785_edited_1    
>>> Feeding on a Russian Vine
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3781_edited_1  
>>> Just sitting there (Damn that twig obscuring his beak)
>>>
>>> Technical stuff Canon 20D, 135mm, ISO equivalent 800
>>> Cheers
>>> Douglas
>>>   
>>
>> ....
>>
>>  
>>
>
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