>
> >
> > > Yesterday I found yet another flower on my Guayacan shrub,
> > > which gave me another opportunity to experiment with taking
> > > closeup flower photos with a telephoto lens, this time a
> > > Vivitar/Tokina 75-260/4.5 TX, which to date is my favourite
> > > field telephoto lens:
> > >
> > >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/7650204938/in/photostream
> >
> > At first glance, I thought it was soft. But really, it's a little
> > underexposed and has low contrast. The top third or so of the
> > histogram is empty. Local edge contrast is low too. I don't know
> > what combo of exposure, lens and light did those things.
> >
> > Veiled in there is a rather lovely image of the flower.
> > <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Trask/Guayacan2.htm>
> >
> > A little NR and deconvolution also helps bring out the detail
> > the lens captured.
> >
>
> Significant improvement without being "overcooked".
>
I can accomplish close to the same effect by adjusting the brightness in
Corel Photo-Paint:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/7656149306/in/photostream
The bright green colour of the younger foliage is retained here. It seems
that I should have bracketed this even while using the spot meter so as to get
a brighter image rather than "correcting" it with software.
Chris
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