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My flag looked so glorious the other day in the sunlight; it brought tears to my eyes.
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It was a delight to find this spring ephemeral in bloom. Most of the hepaticas I find in my area are the Round-lobed variety.
Yes. I did buy a Nikon 1 V1... It was about 50% of the current normal price (799€) for the body + 10mm F2.8, so I could not resist anymore. It has the hybrid focusing system, that is supposed to be good at moving objects. And the E-PL3 is not good at that at all. I have deleted hundreds of unfocused images of my dogs. Not anymore soon, I hope! The tracking system of the V1 seems to work very well. The 10mm (27mm) is of course not a very good lens for this kind of shooting, so I'll have to buy a 30-110mm too. And the lenses are really cheap (and said to be good), I can get one for 179€. Interesting :).
Sharp-shinned hawks, members of the Accipiter family, are skilled hunters known for capturing songbirds, small mammals, and larger insects. These hawks prefer nesting in old spruce trees and thrive in wooded habitats. With 21 to 25-inch wingspans and weights of 3.5 to 6 ounces, they are crucial in maintaining ecological balance, making them invaluable to our ecosystem.
I was struggling to balance a wriggling 3 year old child on one arm and the big Mamiya 7 in the other hand, so was lucky this turned out pretty sharp.
Tokyo Station, Japan.
Macro Mondays. August 3, 2015 ~ Sharp as a tack.
Happy Macro Monday, my friends!
I was entranced again by the bunches of fading flowers brought in from Trader Joe's to cut and arrange as little centerpieces for the tables in the dining room. I don't know what flower this is
but I love the razor-sharp edge of its graceful petals!
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I've messed with combinations of sharpening from RAW in lightroom, using varying smart sharpen or USM passes in PS, then finally differing export sharpening passes en route to jpg and even skipping any sharpening at all to get an image where I need it in any given format.
Yet, the diffusive glow cast off by various lenses (Meyer and Helios stuff mostly) reacts poorly to sharpening in general. While the strength of these images was never in their sharpness, it turns out USM with a small amount of threshold really dodges the softer areas and adds a little micro punch to the in-focus plane. If USM or smart sharpen (or still yet any sharpening at all) is more useful now is down to which lens I've shot with and at what aperture.
Slowly voodoo becomes science.