[LRflex] Re: 1st. attempts: Bird Photos
- From: Philippe Amard <phamard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:02:46 +0200
Congratulations Eric
they all look like water colours and, erm
well, erm, sorry for me to say, but the birds are in my perception
"only" a very nice pretext for SPLENDID !!! backgrounds
Keep on giving us such nice pastels
Thanks for sharing
Phileicangenieux
LEICAFLEX wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>This forum has inspired me to try bird photography - thanks to Doug
>Herr, Douglas Sharp and everyone else:
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/For-the-Birds/23_Sun_Bird_8X10
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/For-the-Birds/24_Sunbird_AC_8X10
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/For-the-Birds/33_15_Sunbird_Flight_Crop
>
>Typically I shoot with a Leicaflex SL or R7, but sorry to ruffle some
>feathers by saying that I used an off-topic non-digital system, i.e.
>Zeiss Sonnar 135mm HFT lens at full 2.8 aperture on the Rolleiflex
>3003. (I used full aperture to blur out the background and check out
>the Zeiss "bokeh".) The reason for going off-topic was because I had
>12 frames left in the roll of Fuji Superia 400ASA and the brief
>respite from rain on Easter Sunday in the Bay Area called for
>immediate action! These were taken at my front yard, processed by
>Long's Drugstore and scanned with their Fuji Frontier machine into
>TIFF files. A lot cheaper than a DMR!
>
>I don't have time right now to try my own scanner, but I used PS
>Elements to remove some of the Fuji Frontier scan artifacts with
>gaussian blur - these artifacts look different from film grain, more
>like a mottled texture. Anyone have input on this? PS Elements
>unsharp mask was applied to bring back some detail and Auto contrast
>function was applied. I then cropped all 3 shots - the most cropped
>was the bird in flight. The Sunbird II shot was laterally inverted
>because I preferred the orientation of the bird on the right and red
>flower splotches on the left. I don't even know if this is a Sunbird.
>Maybe someone can correct me.
>
>Well, what do you guys think of my initial birding adventure? I kinda
>like the CZ lens' contrasty colors.
>
>Cheers,
>Eric Chan
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