Leighton... I'm really impressed with several of your recent shots on this Fuji thread. The near perfect colors above, those farm shots a few pages ago and that great moody window photo on the previous page. I'm curious, were these shots originally raw files and then converted to jpegs or shot originally as jpegs? I've heard Fuji has great out of camera jpegs, but I never hear much praise for their raws.
Cadaver wrote:
Leighton... I'm really impressed with several of your recent shots on this Fuji thread. The near perfect colors above, those farm shots a few pages ago and that great moody window photo on the previous page. I'm curious, were these shots originally raw files and then converted to jpegs or shot originally as jpegs? I've heard Fuji has great out of camera jpegs, but I never hear much praise for their raws.
Thank you Bill, that's very kind.
I always shoot raw and edit in LR. I'll often use the Fuji profiles and just tweak the tones until I'm happy. I find I don't have to do much as even the raw files straight from the camera are excellent.
There's a story behind these two pictures. I hope it's okay to share it along with the pictures.
I visited Bartholomew Buckley’s grave this morning. Bartholomew is buried just outside walls of the Old Kenmare Burial Ground in Kenmare, Ireland. Bartholomew passed in 1879 at the age of 65 years. The location of his grave is important because the burial ground is Catholic and non-Catholics and people who have taken their own lives can’t be buried within the walls.
I first met Bartholomew in the Spring of 2013. It was my first visit to Kenmare and I was working on a project of famine plots; mass graves of famine victims. I saw the headstone down the hill from the burial ground and nearly in the river. I went down the river bank and found a badly eroded grave with a few ornaments left beside it. The stone was covered by vines and there was a small metal heart attached to the vines.
I returned a few days ago and the heart was gone. The vines had been cleared away and the heart was missing.
Today I went back to clean up the grave a bit. I found the heart. It’s safe now and won’t be lost again.
@kwoodard a lot of that look was just the conditions at the time. The air and trees were quite wet with all the rain coming down. That also produced a mist which helped de-emphasize areas. As far as processing goes I had a number of DB layers to help separate the clumps of trees and help the depth of the image. The background was slightly blurred just because I wanted the viewer to focus on the major trees more than the background. Then some warmth and contrast to finish things off..
