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p.8 #1Fujifilm SLR Thread
Old pic from which I made .. well maybe hundred versions. Im always ambivalent if I want it to look bit more real or less. This is that less real case. Slightly cooler than reality (late evening sun) and probably bit greener sky (due software polarizer, could negate that, but it throws rest of colors off too). Im pretty positive I will make newer version soon.
One day I will make final version.. just not today.Otherwise its done from LightZone file, which even tho this pic doesnt show it, can make really interesting colors. And I found out that one file where I thought sky is gone, actually sky wasnt gone .. nice suprise. Plus it can make my pics look "like real", which I really didnt expect (after trying almost every RAW converter possible). Tho you will never see that kind of pics from me, sorry.
Btw. sometimes when I look on my old processed pics I have strong feeling that Im colorblind sometimes. Anyone else?
Oh and Ratty, really nice yellow on that flowers..
Sep 22, 2013 at 08:11 PM
p.8 #3Fujifilm SLR Thread
That standing guy looks quite interesting..
Btw. what lens are you using?
Its rather crisp and clean image..
Btw. what lens are you using?
Its rather crisp and clean image..Sep 23, 2013 at 03:44 PM
p.8 #4Fujifilm SLR Thread
Mescalamba wrote:
That standing guy looks quite interesting..
Btw. what lens are you using? Its rather crisp and clean image..
This image was shot with a Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 AIS lens. Thanks for looking.
That standing guy looks quite interesting..
Btw. what lens are you using?
Its rather crisp and clean image..This image was shot with a Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 AIS lens. Thanks for looking.
Sep 23, 2013 at 04:14 PM
p.8 #8Fujifilm SLR Thread
You have nice sunrises.. I have nice sunsets, only issue is that big concrete building right in front of my windows.
That night pic looks nice, higher ISO?
Old pic re-processed. Original seemed to have sky completely gone, with LightZone I found out that sky is actually there. Also colors were seriously off, I think I made original processing with LR or something with bit strange colors..
So, this is LightZone TIFF (well its closer to RAW, just fixed exposure, tweaked WB to "correct" level, tiny bit of sharpening) and then load into RawTherapee, compressing DR, saturating and such. Finishing touch was to do selective NR on sky (bit noisy, it really was close to being wiped) and removing bit of that pesky blue fringe that C/Y 50/1.4 produces.
With normal camera you most likely wont see that fringe and Im pretty sure it couldnt be visible on film. What surely was visible is quite dreadful LoCA. I should have stopped down a lot more..
Well, it simply wasnt best lens for this. It isnt best lens for S5 Pro anyway. This camera is excellent in showing every possible variant of CA or fringe that any lens have. One reason to use best lens possible on it (good Nikkors, Leica R probably best and some ZFs are very decent, maybe some APO Voigtlaenders too).
Yea I said I wont show natural colors. Well, after bit of my usual tweaking only thing I managed is to make it look worse, so I simply left it without color tweaks. Its a bit colder than reality, but not much (side-effect of C/Y lens too).
That night pic looks nice, higher ISO?
Old pic re-processed. Original seemed to have sky completely gone, with LightZone I found out that sky is actually there. Also colors were seriously off, I think I made original processing with LR or something with bit strange colors..
So, this is LightZone TIFF (well its closer to RAW, just fixed exposure, tweaked WB to "correct" level, tiny bit of sharpening) and then load into RawTherapee, compressing DR, saturating and such. Finishing touch was to do selective NR on sky (bit noisy, it really was close to being wiped) and removing bit of that pesky blue fringe that C/Y 50/1.4 produces.
With normal camera you most likely wont see that fringe and Im pretty sure it couldnt be visible on film. What surely was visible is quite dreadful LoCA. I should have stopped down a lot more..
Well, it simply wasnt best lens for this. It isnt best lens for S5 Pro anyway. This camera is excellent in showing every possible variant of CA or fringe that any lens have.
One reason to use best lens possible on it (good Nikkors, Leica R probably best and some ZFs are very decent, maybe some APO Voigtlaenders too).Yea I said I wont show natural colors. Well, after bit of my usual tweaking only thing I managed is to make it look worse, so I simply left it without color tweaks. Its a bit colder than reality, but not much (side-effect of C/Y lens too).
Sep 25, 2013 at 09:32 AM
p.8 #9Fujifilm SLR Thread
Thanks. My last night pic was shot at ISO400. Not too high.
Nice pretty flowers.
Nice pretty flowers.
Sep 25, 2013 at 04:21 PM
p.8 #10Fujifilm SLR Thread
Bit more punchy, dandelion by the railroad (with bit of low-ish sun, shot shortly after previous shot). Tho not that you could say it from my PPed sample.
Slightly "Velvia-ish" try at processing. Tho frankly I would probably need to get myself simply roll of RVP50 to actually get idea how its supposed to look, cause when I searched interwebz I got really contradicting results.
One thing is sure, regular digital is incapable of film colors. Closest thing is most likely SD1M, but Im done for some time with obscure RAW files and post-processing experiments.
Sep 25, 2013 at 09:12 PM
p.8 #11Fujifilm SLR Thread
Epic sunrise caught this morning. S5 Pro w/ Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 AIS lens, shot at f/11 and converted from RAW with Hyper Utility.
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2868/9957518385_646aba15f1_b.jpg
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2868/9957518385_646aba15f1_b.jpg
Sep 26, 2013 at 04:24 PM
p.8 #14Fujifilm SLR Thread
Wish I had a better view out my balcony. Sorry about that. But these gorgeous sunrises are just too beautiful not to photograph. Converted with Fujifilm's Hyper Utility using Pro Negative film mode.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3760/9972957106_19db430f87_b.jpg
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3760/9972957106_19db430f87_b.jpg
Sep 27, 2013 at 04:59 PM
p.8 #15Fujifilm SLR Thread
Im usually awake to catch sunrise too, but nothing like this..
Burning skies, its really nice. I think that view doesnt matter much (hm.. maybe try telephoto sometimes with similar view?), cause for example for me, its pretty exotic too..
Burning skies, its really nice. I think that view doesnt matter much (hm.. maybe try telephoto sometimes with similar view?), cause for example for me, its pretty exotic too..
Sep 27, 2013 at 07:38 PM
p.8 #16Fujifilm SLR Thread
I think I was on LSD back then..
original version of PP
new version of PP
I mean, it was nice colorful afternoon with warm-ish sun shining in pretty low angle. How the heck I came up with first version.. sometimes I confuse myself.
Ok, maybe bit too saturated.. but I like it.
Second pic was made with latest version of Photivo. As it allows changing demosaicing it produces bit better pics than LightZone. Plus it can do some really neat tricks.. Color matrix of Adobe used (actually good as long as you dont use it in Adobe products). And bit of dodge, burn and selective desaturation to fight fringing.
original version of PP
new version of PP
I mean, it was nice colorful afternoon with warm-ish sun shining in pretty low angle. How the heck I came up with first version.. sometimes I confuse myself.
Ok, maybe bit too saturated.. but I like it.
Second pic was made with latest version of Photivo. As it allows changing demosaicing it produces bit better pics than LightZone. Plus it can do some really neat tricks.. Color matrix of Adobe used (actually good as long as you dont use it in Adobe products
). And bit of dodge, burn and selective desaturation to fight fringing.Sep 27, 2013 at 09:56 PM
p.8 #17Fujifilm SLR Thread
I like the original shot much better. The tree looks far more natural, colorwise. The second pic is a nice Velvia impersonation.
Sep 28, 2013 at 04:11 AM
p.8 #18Fujifilm SLR Thread
Second actually is Velvia simulation.. (usually recognizable by slightly green-ish skies).
First pic doesnt look like reality, way too cold, probably result of using something around 5K color temp in RAW developer which doesnt interpret S5 Pro color temp right. Plus colors are bit selectively muted, its very green (it really wasnt).
Which btw. isnt even one of them. For example daylight profile in Hyper Utility is somewhere around 4500k (at least thats what I came up with after trying to match camera daylight preset in it).
Rest of RAW developers pretty much interpret it as they have mood for it.
First pic doesnt look like reality, way too cold, probably result of using something around 5K color temp in RAW developer which doesnt interpret S5 Pro color temp right. Plus colors are bit selectively muted, its very green (it really wasnt).
Which btw. isnt even one of them.
For example daylight profile in Hyper Utility is somewhere around 4500k (at least thats what I came up with after trying to match camera daylight preset in it).Rest of RAW developers pretty much interpret it as they have mood for it.
Sep 28, 2013 at 06:53 AM
p.8 #19Fujifilm SLR Thread
I made a couple of shots this weekend with my S5 and Zeiss 50MP, and man, something is wrong somewhere. I just couldn't get the right level of micro contrast and pop, and everything seemed slightly soft and with unattractive rendering. I am not sure that the lens even reaches infinity on this camera. I need to do some testing. Or maybe I should finally just sell that 50MP, I never really got along with it.
Sep 29, 2013 at 04:27 PM
p.8 #20Fujifilm SLR Thread
carstenw wrote:
I made a couple of shots this weekend with my S5 and Zeiss 50MP, and man, something is wrong somewhere. I just couldn't get the right level of micro contrast and pop, and everything seemed slightly soft and with unattractive rendering. I am not sure that the lens even reaches infinity on this camera. I need to do some testing. Or maybe I should finally just sell that 50MP, I never really got along with it.
Why would it not reach infinity?? If that's the case, something is clearly defective.
How would you be able to confirm if it could not reach infinity?
I made a couple of shots this weekend with my S5 and Zeiss 50MP, and man, something is wrong somewhere. I just couldn't get the right level of micro contrast and pop, and everything seemed slightly soft and with unattractive rendering. I am not sure that the lens even reaches infinity on this camera. I need to do some testing. Or maybe I should finally just sell that 50MP, I never really got along with it.
Why would it not reach infinity?? If that's the case, something is clearly defective.
How would you be able to confirm if it could not reach infinity?
Sep 29, 2013 at 04:36 PM