Re: New camera, test shots...

"Alienjones" <Alienjones@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Noons wrote:
> | On Apr 23, 11:46 am, "Alan Meyer" <amey...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> |> "Focus" <fo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> |>> Bought a new camera after selling my D300.
> |>> I'm not unsatisfied:
> |>> http://atlantic-diesel.com/
> |> Don't know if it's the camera or what you did in Photoshop, but
> |> the colors look a tad too vivid for me.
> |>
> |> Some cameras have a setting for "natural" and "vivid" color.  If
> |> yours is set for vivid, you might try the other setting to see if you
> |> like them better.
> |>
> |> Of course a lot of people like that.kind of vivid "pop".  So it
> |> might be just right if you're one of them.
> |
> |
> | Wasn't going to mention it but since you did,
> | I found the same thing.  Thought it might be one of those
> | screen profile thingies but obviously I'm not the only one
> | thinking the same.
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> When you take a new Nikon DSLR out of the box and shoot some stuff they
> all look like this until you tone it down. From what I saw in Tokyo
> recently, The Japanese youth are very much into bright colours. So it
> would seem are many of my clients.
>
> Personally I've never seen colours this vivid on an overcast day. I
> recall in 1999 getting a "revolutionary" Canon P&S. The first 1 Mp P&S
> on the market, so I was told.
>
> I was quite surprised to see how vivid it's photos were out of my old
> Epson Stylus Pro. Plastic colours were faithfully reproduced - right
> along with plastic skin tones!

I just used sharpening in PS with Nik software and a polarizer filter.
Personally I think it looks pretty close to what I saw. But maybe I have 
"bright eyes" ;-)


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