Re: New camera, test shots...

In article <480f4877$0$4086$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Allen
<allen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Alan Meyer wrote:
>> "Focus" <focus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>> news:uPqdnTjL-9d5Q5HVnZ2dnUVZ8gydnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> 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.
>> 
>>    Alan 
>> 
>> 
>To me, the colors look about like what I see in similar settings, not 
>like what used to be called the "Technicolor effect" which was basically 
>heavily enhanced color. The lower picture, the one with the brilliant 
>yellow composite, might seem too vivid to some, but I spent yesterday 
>driving through the central Texas hill country and saw many yellow 
>flowers that looked just that vivid. Some people, though, seem to prefer 
>somewhat subdued color rendition.
>Allen

Seems to me colors tend to go into saturation and levels are not as
distinguishable in that mode.