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    Oak with Brown Sky

    This my favorite oak tree hereabouts:

    Oak with Brown Sky

    Shot 1/2 size binned raw with UV/IR blocking dust-cover removed from Sigma SD14. Exported from RawDigger as a raw composite image. Color-toned (split-toned) in RawTherapee.

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    Re: Oak with Brown Sky

    Interesting image. “Binned”?


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    Re: Oak with Brown Sky

    Although I don't understand any of that, I think it's a wonderful image Ted, especially when viewed large in the lightbox.

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    Re: Oak with Brown Sky

    I like it. It's like a cross between IR and something else Great composition.

    You do have a number of dust bunnies that need cleaning up, and what appear to be a few hot pixels (white)

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    Re: Oak with Brown Sky

    I like it, too, but I would clone out the fence post in bottom left corner.

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    Re: Oak with Brown Sky

    Quote Originally Posted by DanK View Post
    Interesting image. “Binned”?
    Foveon sensors have high and low resolution modes. In low resolution, the photo-elements are binned 2x2 on-chip by shorting them together; thus 7.8um pixel pitch becomes 15.6um effectively. Files get smaller and the camera processes them pretty quick! They used to also have a medium res. mode - but that involved interpolation which is anathema to the average Foveonista.

    http://www.foveon.com/article.php?a=71
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    Re: Oak with Brown Sky

    Thanks. Utterly alien to many of the rest of us.


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    Re: Oak with Brown Sky

    Philip, Peter, David,

    Thanks to you all. I plan to revisit the raw and look into the hot pixels, dust bunnies and review that post at bottom left which I hadn't even noticed!

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    Re: Oak with Brown Sky

    Good strong image, Ted, sensor dust aside.

    The orange sky definitely gives the whole piece a strong but slightly disturbing look and feel. Images that have an emotional impact on the viewer are challenging to do and you have definitely succeeded here!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manfred M View Post
    Good strong image, Ted, sensor dust aside.

    The orange sky definitely gives the whole piece a strong but slightly disturbing look and feel. Images that have an emotional impact on the viewer are challenging to do and you have definitely succeeded here!
    Thank you, Manfred! Such praise from "the man" is certainly uplifting ...

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    Re: Oak with Brown Sky

    Nicely presented.

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    Re: Oak with Brown Sky

    Thanks to all for comments and advice. Wasn't able to redo from scratch (lost sidecar file) so I edited the posted image and replaced it on my site. It can be reviewed in the first post. If the fence post is still there, please refresh the page. (F5 in Windows).

    I did crop the fence post out, cloned a few dust spots and also gave it some haze reduction to increase the alien look.

    Peter, the apparently hot pixels are bright reflections and I was much too enthusiastic with the sharpening/microcontrast so I toned it down with a dose of impulse noise reduction.

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    Re: Oak with Brown Sky

    I really like the lonely tree and its shadow... i wonder whether he is much ahead of the mass of behind it...

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    Re: Oak with Brown Sky

    .....impulse noise reduction.

    Something else I've not seen before. Obviously there is so much more to learn.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MrB View Post
    .....impulse noise reduction.

    Something else I've not seen before. Obviously there is so much more to learn.

    Philip
    Sorry about that, Phil! It's a very useful RawTherapee tool:

    "Suppresses salt-and-pepper noise - sudden white and black pixels, which remind one of salt and pepper sprinkled over a photo. This is done after demosaicing."

    http://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Impulse_Noise_Reduction
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    Re: Oak with Brown Sky

    Thank you, Ted.

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    Re: Oak with Brown Sky

    Re posted to make a typo correction and clarification....I really like the lonely tree and its shadow... i wonder whether he(the lonely tree) is much ahead of the mass (of trees) or behind it...

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