David I saw one of these a couple of weeks ago at a neighbor's place. She invited me to come back and photograph it, but I forgot. Your beautiful shot has reminded me of what I missed out on ! ! > Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 10:22:30 -0700 > From: dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [LRflex] Re: Friday Flower > > In a message dated 03/06/2011, George Lottermoser said ... > > > > On Jun 2, 2011, at 10:57 PM, David Young wrote: > > > > http://www.furnfeather.net/Temps/Cactus.html > > > > > > C&C welcomed, as always. > > > 'tis a lovely presentation of a marvelous specimen. > > > (I think that if you desaturated it a bit > > you could reclaim some of the detail in the reds. > > One of the issues with digital color > > is this loss of detail due to saturation. > > Or perhaps you want the flat look?) > > Hi George! > > Thanks for the suggestion. > > The original jpeg (from RAW) had more detail in the full sized image, but > seemed to lose it when the size was reduced. > > I've lowered the saturation and behold! Just as you said, the detail (or, > at least some of it) was restored. > > For comparisons, here's the original > > http://www.furnfeather.net/Temps/Cactus.html > > and here is the reduced saturation version. > > http://www.furnfeather.net/Temps/Cactus-2.html > > I think I like the second version better. Rose likes the fully saturated > one, so.... > > Thanks, once again, for the pointer, and for taking the time to look and > comment. :-) > > Cheers! > > > > ------ > > Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > > http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ > > Archives are at: > > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ > > > > -- > David Young - Photographer > Logan Lake, CANADA > > Wildlife: www.furnfeather.net > Personal: www.main.furnfeather.net > A micro-lender through www.Kiva.org. > > > > ------ > Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ > Archives are at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/