Some New Pictures

[Travis L. Stevens]

I'm pretty proud of these, but they aren't the quality that I would like. All pictures are with standard FujiFilm FinePix S5100 4 megapixel camera. Most pictures are cropped for an added zoom effect.

Toadstool Macro of Polyps

Superman Rhodactis

Orange and Teal Ricordea floridas

Purple Star Polyps

Lori's Pinks

Feather Dusters

 

[pmvalenti]

thats awsome, man i need to get a camera

 

[edwing206]

Love the rics.

 

[drummereef]

Great pics, Travis. The feather dusters look like tiny umbrellas.

 

[Grunt]

Great Pictures, I enjoy the feather dusters the most. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers

 

[BlueCorn]

Travis - shooting at that ISO is really hurting you. Even so, those can be helped substantially by a little cleanup in PS.

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

Thanks for the cleanup Beerguy. I was trying to avoid cleaning at the moment until I can get the best of my camera and hone my skills. FWIW, I tried shooting at the lowest ISO, 64, that my camera has while adjusting the Shutter Speed and Aperture in order to get a balanced exposure, and I still see some graininess. On the other hand, it was a noticable difference. BTW, what steps did you take to clean up those pictures? Did you blue it all to smooth out the grains and then sharpen the image?

 

[BlueCorn]

I used "noise ninja" for the color noise, a levels layer to adjust the contrast, the spot healing brush for the bubbles and then sharpened.

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

Ah, okay. I'll have to toy around with that method. Thanks.