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mdbassman Offline Buy and Sell: On Spring Blooms 1. Orchid 2. Tree Orchid 3. camassia in white C&C Welcome as always. Taken with 400mm f5.6 w/ extension tubes and 180mm Macro Dan May 09, 2008 at 05:17 PM

Shasoc Offline Image Upload: On Spring Blooms Very nice series, Dan. Lighting and colors are very good, and eventhough detail are nice maybe a bit more sharpening could help. I like the last shot best because of the darker bg. I've seen people using blck cloth behind the flowers as bg, to help make the flowers stand out more. Nice job. Socrate May 10, 2008 at 04:02 AM

mdbassman Offline Buy and Sell: On Spring Blooms Shasoc wrote: Very nice series, Dan. Lighting and colors are very good, and eventhough detail are nice maybe a bit more sharpening could help. I like the last shot best because of the darker bg. I've seen people using blck cloth behind the flowers as bg, to help make the flowers stand out more. Nice job. Socrate Thanks for the comstructive comments Socrate. I will give it another try. I agree all the images appear a tad soft but with PSE 5.0 the learning curve on sharpness can get "ugly" for me. Also the tip of the flower is OOF. I need to get everything in focus. I was using a 400mm f5.6 with an extension tube for an experiment. But again thanks for the comment. Dan PS..Socrate, I played with the sharpening and I had a great deal of "noise, aka grainniness" imposed into the image when I got the sharpness to the point where it looked acceptable. Any hints on how to "adjust" that?? EXIF on original= ISO400, 1/500,f/6.3, 180mm macro lens May 10, 2008 at 12:23 PM

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