I love the colors and, of course, the reflections. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all! [At the end of the email there is a short detour about > the Pentax DA 50mm f/1.8, and providing some context for the PESO.] > > > The PESO... After the dark set over the riverbank, while > stumbling in the dark (the lights on my side weren't working), I've > looked to the other side and found the restaurant so welcoming, luring > me with it's warm light. The outcome is below (~200 KiB): > > > http://data.volution.ro/ciprian/bdf753de58c560bc/395c04795f9e801b/variant-a--x800.jpg > > > However I'm uncertain about a few things and wanted to get your feedback: > > * The lights are blown out --- although only the lamps and not the > resulting starbusts --- and if I wanted to retain some detail I'm > afraid the surrounding would have been pushed to shadows. Moreover > one of the lamps was almost embedded in a tree, making the leafs glow. > How would you proceed in such a situation? One thought would be > multiple exposures and then layers in post-processing, but I would > like to get all in one exposure... > > * I decided to pull-up the shadows and have some visible details > on the riverbank. However this diminishes the warm light of the > restaurant, and the scene looks more like in the evening than after > the sun set... Should I have went for a more contrasting processing? > > * I preferred to keep the saturation low enough to have the trees > green-ish, and only pull-up on the reds (for the lights). However > this makes the picture look a little bit "washed", but on the other > hand I find it does make it seem more "peaceful". > > * I have a faint feeling that the resulting picture looks HDR-ish, > which was not my intention. > > > For those interested in comparing it with the original, I put > below the links to the exports from both RawTherapee and `dcraw` > without any additional processing except the "auto-magic" settings > (less than 200 KiB each): > > > http://data.volution.ro/ciprian/bdf753de58c560bc/395c04795f9e801b/export-rawtherapee--x800.jpg > > http://data.volution.ro/ciprian/bdf753de58c560bc/395c04795f9e801b/export-dcraw--x800.jpg > > For the the raw (~ 13 MiB) and other files you can look in: > http://data.volution.ro/ciprian/bdf753de58c560bc/395c04795f9e801b > > > Thanks for your time and I welcome any feedback, > Ciprian. > > > P.S.: About the Pentax DA 50mm f/1.8 lens... So, Friday I've > just received my first non-kit lens, a Pentax DA 50mm f/1.8, which > although quite cheap I hope will prove of better optical quality (i.e. > sharpness at over f/3.2-4) than the kit ones. Especially than the > Pentax DA 50-200mm WR, which although I've found I was using it (at > ~50mm) more than the corresponding 18-55 one, is quite soft (including > at f/8) for "far" subjects (i.e. more than 5m maybe). > > Anyway... Because I've got home only late, I didn't manage to try > it out while there actually light, I've decided to try a couple > low-light and some long exposure exposures. My first impression is > that this could be my "all-around" lens: > * the focal length is almost just right to exclude all the city > clutter from the photo; (maybe a little bit longer would have been > better;) > * light and small (and cheap) enough; > * "fast" enough (but kind of softer) when you need it; > * sharp enough (especially at f/4 or f/8); > > I two words: good enough! > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
