Autumn in Colour

[Matty B]

Hi all,

This exposure is typical of what my D70 does in low angled warm afternoon / evening light. To me this image looks a little like a painting of sorts. I get a lot of this from the D70. Any comments / similar experiences? ISO 200 f/10 28mm 1/40th No other in camera pre-sets no after shoot sharpening Circ Pol Filter used, White Bal set to Auto A.



Cheers,

Matty.

[xerubus]

it looks very washed out... i can't say that my d70 does this... i'll go for a wander this afternoon and test...

cheers

[Deano]

Matty,

I'm not sure why you would be getting such a result. I would expect the CPL to take some of those reflections from the foliage. Are you shooting RAW?

I took the liberty of having a play with PS.



Did an unsharp mask (15%, 250 pixels, 0 threshold) to improve the contrast, lowered the gamma with a curve, boosted saturation by 10% and then sharpened (USM 100%, 0.3 pixels, 0 threshold).

I am a PS novice so I'm sure there is more to be done.

Cheers
Dean

[Matty B]

Thanks Xerubus and Deano for your comments.

Xerubus, yes, washed out is quite an accurate description. Deano, Your post exposure editing has made an improvement for sure. Your version is easier to look at which counts a lot for me.

I just hope I have not damaged my camera's sensor. I don't get any colour fringing or similar digital anomalies in my images, but at anything less than brilliant 'noon high' light I get the majority of images with this gratly softened/dulled apperence. I will try switching to sharp option in my menu and see if that makes a difference. I also will have a go using vivid mode.

I will post another example of this effect tonight.

[Sean]

MattyB, I believe I did suffer from a similar problem with my D70 for quite some time. Nearly every shot needed to have the levels adjusted and in particular more contrast added in PP.

My shots had a ghost grey overlay on them I have seemed to work around this by using the camera in Manual mode and spot metering for highlights.

Be sure to look at the histogram, even just to let you know whats going on with every variation. BTW Matt K also worded me up on loading various curves into the camera so it could compensate for my problem but I haven't tried it yet

Best of luck

Sean

[Matty B]

Sean,

Thanks for your insight. There is most likely a simple action to remedy the problem but perhaps not so easy to finally reach it. Spot meter for highlights - I'll give it several tries to see what happens. As for the curves - I've read many references to them in this D70 site, the Velvia curve etc. They sound like a worth while addition as many of the high flying photog's here seem to use them regularly. With time and practice / experimentation I'm sure I can improve my results.

Cheers.