leighton w wrote:
The view from your patio makes it look like you're in the middle of nowhere.
Yes I love it :-) The two 5-acre lots across the street to the North and Northwest are unsold as well as the one directly to the west, so I don't see anyone out of my front porch :-) (the direction of the photo).
Now if I look east or south, it's a bit different but still pretty sparse where I live, which is how I like it
AZ Photo wrote:
Did you RAW process through Lightroom? I wonder how the foliage would look reprocessed through Iridient X-Transformer?
That doesn't appear to be a Lightroom foliage 'thing', it's the nature of the 100-400. Lenses like that (the Nikon, Canon, Sony, Tamron, Sigma, equivalents) do the same thing with foliage that is in the 'un-sweet zone' of the depth of field in that they aren't the smoothest renders, and so it's possible to get a nervous background. The shape of the foliage (fine 'fingers') doesn't help either.
The original image looked like there was a bit of clarity/tonal contrast action and/or curves manipulation, which exacerbates this lens rendering characteristic.
X-Transformer wouldn't really help, as it's a lens thing. Some local editing in LR might work (for instance, lessening contrast, raising shadows slightly, maybe applying noise reduction and negative sharpening), but it's a balancing act between smooth(er) rendering and keeping the image looking realistic vs. the subject's rendering.
Took our son to Disney's Animal Kingdom for the first time this weekend. Took the X-T20 along and took a few pics. Here are a selection I liked. Very saturated, I know, but these were meant for social media consumption by friends and family, so I don't care pushing the colors
Got the 100-400 +1.4TC deal, which arrived yesterday. Shot the only thing handy at the moment to test out the 560mm. XT-2, f8 1/500 at ISO 800. Waxing Crescent at Dusk by lennycarl08, on Flickr
When your able to use a 16mm f1.4 to take picture of deer in the backyard they seemingly aren't too scared of humans. I probably could of tried to get one to eat out of my hand, but I was a little scared of getting bit by a deer
