Flowers with point and shoot.

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[kilroy217]

nice shots, josh. see you sunday.

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

These are GREAT! Seems like a lot of post processing, but it worked.

 

[whipit]

hmm I can amost smell um

 

[username in use]

These are GREAT! Seems like a lot of post processing, but it worked.

Thanks

The only thing I did was color correction (levels), and added a photo filter because the point and shoot tends to read scenes either really warm or really cool for some reason. Im still learning the tricks of photoshop, but Im slowly getting better.

EDIT: Tell me where its obvious that I processed it so that I can work on that. I really want the advize/criticism so I know where my technique is lacking as far as the photoshop work goes. I should post the originals so that you can see the before and after and get a better idea of what I did.

 

[rkelley_10]

Great compositional work and the color rendition is beautiful even though it was in post-production. You're getting some chromatic aberration when the pinks/reds of the petals transition into the green of the OOF points. You can reduce this in Photoshop with the "Noise Reduction" filter. Just play with the settings and find your sweet spot. You have a great intuition with composition and Depth-of-Field (DOF). I do see a little noise in the shadows. This can also be corrected somewhat with the luminance settings in the noise reduction filter. What P&S are you using? Overall, quality pics. Try this if you can manually change the settings in your camers: increase the aperture (f/5.6 or greater), use the lowest possible ISO (200 will drastically decrease the digital noise in you shadows), use a quality tripod as with these settings you'll have a longer shutter speed (avoid blur). This will give you great detail, decrease noise, good DOF, and allow enough light to reach the sensor. You can also bump up the white balance to compensate for the low ISO and high aperture settings. Just my $.02 but these tips have helped me in my shooting. Here's an example of mine:

This was shot hand-held with a Pentax K-X (DSLR) with the kit Pentax DA 55-300mm telephoto lens. I was at the max focal point and actual distance to the subject was over 3m. The only post-production is cropping and resizing. No color or exposure adjustments.

I just got my DSLR Tuesday and this is the only shooting I've done besides macro shots of coral with my Canon Powershot G10 IS (P&S). As a newb I found the advice I listed above has helped me immensely.

 

[username in use]

thanks for the tips on the noise reduction, Ill have to play with that. The camera is a canon a1000 is

 

[rkelley_10]

BOTTOM LINE: You has skillz. Trust me, make the leap to DSLR. You have the intuition and dynamic compositional abilities to take it to the next level. The difference between my pics with the point and shoot and my DSLR is unreal. I'd love to see what you produce with more tools at your disposal.