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HV Gardens - Pt 1

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HV Gardens - Pt 1

Postby stubbsy on Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:18 pm

Last Monday I spent some hours at Hunter Valley Gardens taking pics. They have just started their Rose Spectacular so I thought I'd start with a rose or two. These shots were all taken with the Nikkor 28-70 f/2.8. FOr a larger version click a pic.

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A bee doing bee business

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and a wide shot to finish

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Edit: Replaced #1 and #4 with less sharpened versions
Last edited by stubbsy on Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:10 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Postby PiroStitch on Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:23 pm

love the bee photo stubbsy :D
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Postby Matt. K on Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:18 am

Hi Peter
Beautiful images but I think #1 and #4 are over sharpened. This is something that is becoming a pet hate of mine and seems more common amongst folk who have not migrated from film based photography. It makes the images look false. I have recently evaluated a large number of images taken by beginners that were slightly soft due to off focus or camera movement....and they looked natural and easy to look at. I think over sharpening is something that might be a personal choice by photographers....but it seems easier to overdo it rather than pull it back a tad. Perhaps this is worth further discussion?
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Postby norbs on Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:26 am

I agree Matt. #4 makes my eyes bleed.
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Postby stubbsy on Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:08 am

Wayne - Thanks. This is by far the best bee pic I've ever manage3d.

Matt - Thank you for the honest critique. Interestingly I worry I may have oversharpened my pics, yet for these I knew they were pusing the envelope :wink: but felt for some weird reason they looked better sharp. Looking at these images with fresh eyes this morning I agree with you - these are way OTT.

I have gone back and reprocessed #1 and #4 and updated the images in this post to have more real world softness.

Thanks Todd for echoing Matt's comments. And yes #4 was way, way too sharp. FIxed now.
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Postby shutterbug on Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:32 am

I love the first two images, very nice. I have too see what you can do when you pick up a macro.
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Postby stubbsy on Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:04 pm

Thanks Vince

It was this outing that gave me the macro lust :wink:
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