A few photos I took while in cornwall

[Dragonlord]

Just a few photo's I took in cornwall, mostly going to be landscapes and flowers (landscapes will probably have a pet or 2 in them as we went with the dogs)

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Is it ok to post other ones that I like to these threads later or is it better to make separate threads?

[Shadowman]

Post to the same thread especially if the theme is the same.

[Dragonlord]

Thanks for the info
All of the photo's that I post here were taken on my Lumina 1020.

[ajohnw]

There is a limit on how many can be posted in one go. It's a lot. The only time I exceeded that I just added another post to the thread.

John
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[Dragonlord]

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This one was annoying as I had to reduce the exposure comp in the original and while editing otherwise the flower ended up as a red blob in the centre of the picture

[Dave Humphries]

Hi "Dragonlord",

First off, a very warm welcome to the CiC forums from me.

As you may come to notice, over 90% of members here like to refer to each other by first name, it would be very helpful if you could edit your profile and add that in the Real Name field, also your locality (in the world) in the Location field helps too.

When putting several pictures into a post, I always think it looks nicer with a little gap between them - also, if more than two, numbering them is a good idea to allow others to comment on them by that number instead of having to say "the second picture in your third post". I have (as a moderator) taken the liberty/saved you the effort this time, but it will help if you do this in your future threads and posts.

This one was annoying as I had to reduce the exposure comp in the original and while editing otherwise the flower ended up as a red blob in the centre of the picture

Yeah, #5 is a classic case of a blown red channel , next time you'll know to use an even greater amount of -EC to preserve detail in the bold colour highlights. It isn't as obvious, but #4 suffers a blown blue channel for same reason. Small areas (relative to the entire frame area) of highly saturated colour will be vastly over exposed by most metering methods, that's where experience comes to play in the use of negative exposure compensation (EC), as you already knew.

Just one more thought on #4 - do you think the yellow leaf on the right adds to the composition? - or might it be beneficially cropped off or cloned out?

Hope that's helpful, Dave

[Dragonlord]

Thanks for the comments, and I hadn't noticed the yellow leaf in #4, and I think you're right that it could be cropped out. My editing skill aren't really up to cloning it out yet.

What gets me with #5 is that the jpg that was taken with the DNG looks a lot better.

#5 camera original jpg - no editing except crop and resize

[Dragonlord]

I've had a quick look and I can't see any blown blue colours in #4, did you mean #3?

Also I've been on the internet for a long time and have used dragonlord so much that some people refer to that in RL as well. So I'm happy with people referring to that instead of my real name.

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the details.

I did mean #4, I was basing this on looking at the blue channel in the FireFox Add-on Histogram Viewer.



It isn't over exposed a great deal and it may have occurred in PP or transfer to jpg - I am going by that thin spike climbing the right hand side, although I do now notice it says the max is 253, so perhaps I am wrong.

Cheers, Dave

[Dragonlord]

didn't know there were histogram plugins for browsers, I'll have to have a look.