Fishing for Love
For Sliders Sunday
A quick fun snapshot taken at the Botanical Garden this spring. I walked around, noticed some motion on the surface of one of the ponds there, and saw this small shoal of small fish flocking together in a heart shape. They were being fed at that moment, I guess.
I had forgotten that the camera's aspect ratio was still set to 1:1 (there's a dial for the different aspect ratios on the fixed lens), so here 1:1 was more of an accident than actually intended (as was f14). Usually I won't use the preset 1:1 aspect ratio because the Lumix's 12.8 megapixels will be reduced to 10 megapixels then (it's got something to do with the LX100's "multi format sensor", apparently), but unlike with my OM-D, where I only ever use 4:3, and crop the image later in LR, if desired, I often switch between 4:3 and 16:9 on the Lumix.
Processed in LR and Luminar. The water had been very muddy and dull, so I thought that this needed some colour to jazz it up a little. I don't recall each step, as this is an image I've been working on from time to time. But as a finishing touch I used a slightly tweaked Luminar preset, one of Wim Arys' "Atomic Colours", Bismuth, if I remember correctly. Added a sky texture in ON1, too.
A Happy Sliders Sunday to you all!
Fishing for Love
For Sliders Sunday
A quick fun snapshot taken at the Botanical Garden this spring. I walked around, noticed some motion on the surface of one of the ponds there, and saw this small shoal of small fish flocking together in a heart shape. They were being fed at that moment, I guess.
I had forgotten that the camera's aspect ratio was still set to 1:1 (there's a dial for the different aspect ratios on the fixed lens), so here 1:1 was more of an accident than actually intended (as was f14). Usually I won't use the preset 1:1 aspect ratio because the Lumix's 12.8 megapixels will be reduced to 10 megapixels then (it's got something to do with the LX100's "multi format sensor", apparently), but unlike with my OM-D, where I only ever use 4:3, and crop the image later in LR, if desired, I often switch between 4:3 and 16:9 on the Lumix.
Processed in LR and Luminar. The water had been very muddy and dull, so I thought that this needed some colour to jazz it up a little. I don't recall each step, as this is an image I've been working on from time to time. But as a finishing touch I used a slightly tweaked Luminar preset, one of Wim Arys' "Atomic Colours", Bismuth, if I remember correctly. Added a sky texture in ON1, too.
A Happy Sliders Sunday to you all!