Friday, April 20, 2012

Mortimer

Pentax K100D Sigma 28-80mm lens  1/180sec 200 ISO No Flash
 17 April 2012


Post Processing: Straight off of Camera  Added watermark









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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Dark Stain

Pentax K100D Sigma 28-80mm lens  6sec's 3200 ISO Flash
 19 April 2012
Dark Stain


Post Processing: Cropped and added watermark




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Ranges In The Morning

Pentax K100D Sigma 28-80mm lens  1/90sec 400 ISO No Flash
 17 April 2012
Ranges In The Morning


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Resting in the Shadows


Pentax K100D Sigma 28-80mm lens  1/350sec 200 ISO No Flash
 17 April 2012

Resting in the Shadows
Post Processing: Adjusted Histogram to darken slightly and added watermark

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Mellow Yellow

Pentax K100D Sigma 28-80mm lens  1/250sec 200 ISO No Flash
 26 March 2012

Mellow Yellow 
Post Processing: Cropped and watermark added and background blurred slightly







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Predator

Pentax K100D Sigma 28-80mm lens  1/500sec 200 ISO Flash
 26 March 2012
Predator
Post Processing: Adjusted histogram to darken background flash was used during the shot so the
 background was very dark anyway, added watermark



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In a Rush

Pentax K100D Sigma 28-80mm lens  1/180sec 200 ISO No Flash
 26 March 2012

In a Rush

Post Processing: Cropped added frame, rounded corners, desaturated and added sepia tone,
added grain and adjusted histogram then added watermark


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Purple Posy

Pentax K100D Sigma 28-80mm lens  1/30sec 200 ISO No Flash
 4 April 2012
Purple Posy
Post Processing: Darkened shadows added watermark
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Blossom in Oil

Pentax K100D with Sigma 28-80mm lens 1/30sec 800 ISO No Flash 
7 April 2012

Blossom in Oil
Post processing: Images was cropped, background was blurred, canvas effect added and oil painting filter applied. Softglow filter was applied to rose. Watermark was added.
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Catch of the Day

Pentax K100D Sigma 28-80mm lens  1/180sec 200 ISO No Flash
 4 April 2012
Catch of the Day
Post Processing: Cropped and Watermark added.
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Ray of Hope

Pentax K100D with Sigma 28-80mm lens 1/20sec 200 ISO No Flash
17 April 2012

Ray of  Hope
Post Processing: Image was cropped and histogram adjusted to darken the mid-tones and bring out the shaft of sunlight Watermark was added.
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Ice Cold

Pentax K100D Asahi 55mm Manual Prime lens with 30mm Macro Extension Tube 1/125sec 800 ISO No Flash
17 April 2012
Ice Cold

Post Processing: Cropped Desaturated adjusted Histogram to bring out highlights and added my watermark.
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Switch Blade

Pentax K100D Asahi 55mm Manual Prime lens with 30mm Macro Extension Tube 1/4000sec 200 ISO No Flash
17 April 2012

Switch Blade

Post Processing: Cropped and added my watermark.

The depth of field is very shallow about 4mm
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Hanging On

Pentax K100D Asahi 55mm Manual Prime lens with 30mm Macro Extension Tube 1/4000sec 200 ISO No Flash
17 April 2012

Hanging On
Post Processing: Cropped and added my watermark.

The flower is about 1cm in size, I found it while crawling around
in the front yard looking for blades of grass for the photo 'Switch Blade'
It was a single flower growing in amongst the weeds.
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Wall Flower


Pentax K100D Sigma 28-80mm lens in Macro 1/60sec 200 ISO No Flash
28 February 2012

Wall Flower

Post Processing: Blurred lower left corner of concrete as it was in focus while the rest of the background was out of focus, this was caused by the background sloping relative to the flower, cropped and added my watermark.
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Sunday, April 8, 2012

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Well I have had my Pentax Digital Single Lens Reflex Camera (DSLR) for a few weeks now and finally have my work flow down pat... This is the process I take to get from subject to final image...

 1. Photograph the subject in raw mode and usually take three photos of the same subject at different exposures so I can pick the best. One at normal exposure, one 1 stop underexposed and one 1 stop over exposed. This also allows me to create High Dynamic Range images If I want to however for HDR you need to use a tripod so the camera does not move.

When I take the photo I am only shooting at 6.1 Mega-pixels as that is all the K100D does. I take the data in RAW mode not Jpeg and that takes about 22 Megabytes per image so over 60 Meg for the three images. The 6.1 Mega-pixel image from the DSLR is far better in quality and colour reproduction then my AUD $60 14 Mega-pixel cheapish point and shoot. This is mainly due to the real lenses in front of the sensor rather then a small lens. That and the size of the CCD sensor.

 2. Transfer the images to my computer still in RAW mode with photo management software called DigiKam for Linux.

 3. Convert the RAW image to loss less PNG format with no other effects or editing, this means I can edit in PNG and not lose any of the image due to the compression used in Jpeg images. I the delete the RAW images to free up drive space. Each image is now around 8-10 Megabytes instead of 22.

 4. Rename the images so I have sequential numbering of ALL my photos stored on the computer. I have a 320 Gigabyte external drive just for photos.

 5. Create a thumbnail image of the photo say image 0000534.png to a file of 200 pixels wide with a filen ame of _thb_0000534.png. This is for my gallery of Unedited pics I have on my home server so I am not loading the full image from the server unless I need to.

 6. Copy the original image and the thumbnail image to the file server inside the house, I now have 2 copies of the image one on my external hard drive and one on the server as well as the thumbnail.

 7. Edit, crop, adjust colours etc and add my watermark in the Gimp for Linux and save to a directory called final edit and create another thumbnail of the final picture.

 8. Upload the final thumb and photo to the home server in full resolution still around 8 megabytes.

 9. Upload the image to my Flickr account at 1024x768 and post it to my blog or facebook. All of the renaming, RAW to PNG conversion and thumbnail creation is done in batch processing within DigiKam and is fully automatic once it is running so that is pretty easy.

I also do not delete any images as you never know what you will need. I am also working on a long term photography project the requires 1000's of images of flowers but that will take a while although I took nearly 100 photos on this afternoons walk and about 80 of the would have been of flowers so I am getting there... Here is a final image I did for Jo-anne (Blossy)