Lab Enhance by ronviers

Lab Enhance by ronviers
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2478.html

Congratulations!


So I'm a year late.

We're both late on this.

Ron mentioned this one in your corner, but I used to go and look in the HU section to see what was new in there.

When I saw Presidio's posts in here I thought she was back and almost didn't post.

Thanks everyone. Even a year later this is still my favorite trick for enhancing images.

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Carl wrote: updated to a digital camera

What did you get?

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Carl wrote: LP

Line Printers?

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ronviers wrote: Line Printers?

They call the FF default pic Life Preserver here we call it a life saver

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ronviers wrote: What did you get?

I luckily have a handy camera contact at the right place so I saved 60% off the price - Canon Eos 40D

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ahimsa wrote: Are you sure it wasn't old posts?

No they were new

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ronviers wrote: I think you will be very happy with that one

it seem beautiful after film camera but will take a bit of study to understand how to use it to its best you know digital camera I'll have to pick your brain - I notice it does bracketing so have refined that article we discussed about hdri

Thats it - brillant thanks

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ronviers wrote: I really like that it has a 14bit converter

Why ?

I made sure it does raw as you had previous praised

Got distract reading - excellent and now I understand the benefits - his knowledge is fascinating and i can see I'll be doing alot of reading - thanks Ron

Craig, maybe you should consider getting one of these 40Ds - they have 2 stop brackets.

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Carl wrote: Got distract reading

I know you're busy but you might skim this one. It shows how to take a raw image and turn it into a fine-art photo.

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Craig, maybe you should consider getting one of these 40Ds - they have 2 stop brackets.

tempting, i grant you, but i'm not going slr for now. too much cost, too much junk to carry around, and i've already got an slr, film type no, for what i do these days, a carry-around-anywhere is what i need and want. 1 piece of equipment (though i do keep a tripod in my glove compartment ) and i wear it on my belt. that's really all i want for right now. but i am still drooling over the panasonic fz18, though that's not an slr either.

your images look good, ron

actually, i prefer manual, on both the focus and the zoom. the auto-focus crap often misses what i'm really after. but i can get that on the fz18.

as for 'junk', i was just referring to all the stuff i used to carry around, lenses, filters, tripod, bag, lens cleaning, even extra lighting at times and that doesnt even count the film, color and b&w. yes, this was my old slr film days, but i see the same thing happening if i go slr again, digital or not. the fz18 has that nice 18x optical which is roughly equivalent to a 28 to 500 mm zoom lens. that's all i need in a lens these days, well, unless i wanted to do macro again

yeah, the 2 +/- ev level bracketing looks good there. but i can bracket manually if i need to.

as an aside, i've been playing with my kodak z885 quite a bit lately and trying out some more of the fancy features. of note is the panorama shooting. this surprised me at how well this worked. i tried a couple shots of panorama left to right. very impressive and very easy to use and the camera did all the stiching internally and did it well. i was impressed.

what i dont like about the current digitals is no manual zoom, no f-stop settings labeled as such, crappy focus (on the kodak z885. this one needs a manual focus) and the bracketing on cameras with bracketing, you often cant set the bracket divisions. they are fixed.

but, i still wouldnt want to go back to film

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Kraellin wrote: 2 +/- ev level bracketing looks good

It's still a bit disappointing. Canon could have easily made it a six image bracket instead of two. They know very well what they are doing, they want to make the serious HDRI shooter pay for the pro model - an extra $5000.

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Kraellin wrote: no manual zoom

I have not used a non-manual zoom but it seems like the most important thing about an electronic zoom would be the response of the control - a slider would be nice. But I agree, if it does not behave precisely it would be worse than useless.

Very first pic from new camera just using auto [ need to learn camera for good pics ], with and without lab enhance and seeing flower are the theme

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ronviers wrote: I carry a small spray bottle of glycerin with me to shoot flowers

nice idea

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Kraellin wrote: too much cost

the fz was only $200 cheaper

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Kraellin wrote: carry-around-anywhere is what i need and want

it's a good point, ideally to have both would be best

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Kraellin wrote: but i can bracket manually if i need to.

it's a shame you can't set the parameters and number of shot yourself on the canon

mmmmm

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Carl wrote: using auto

The rule in old school photography was to get it right inside the camera. That has changed with digital photography. Of course it helps to do as much as possible with things like lighting and composition before snapping but with digital it is often better to place the part of the scene that you want to record, on the part of the histogram that the sensor is best at recording then move it back to where it looks best in post. This results in some awful looking images until the work is finished with PS and FF. Auto mode will not help with that kind of shooting.

Yes the flower is in my garden - if I pulled out you find I'm cultivating a nice collection of weeds [ love gardens > hate gardening ]

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ronviers wrote: Auto mode will not help with that kind of shooting.

I've alot to learn - I started fiddling with the setting and got some lovely black photos

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Carl wrote: I've alot to learn

But you have a 40D to learn it with.

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ronviers wrote: But you have a 40D to learn it with

it going to be fun/frustrating but the camera is simple beautiful and engineered/construct magnificently, digital is so different but I think it a bit like records to cd once you've had a taste you can't go back

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Carl wrote: you can't go back

Unlimited free film! We can take a million bazillion pictures!

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Carl wrote: where is the good old light meter

Just point the camera at something and watch the indicator. In fact the 40D may have spot metering? I wish I had spot metering. I like to take a shot and study the histogram. It's a good idea to learn to know where on the histogram the relevant info is. Like being able to tell a face from a table in the same scene just on the histogram.