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Cullivan location: Southern NY Gender: Male \|	Botany Lab < on 6/17/2011 7:28 AM >

	Here are a few selections from my most recent trip. I'd especially like some suggestions pertaining to white balance or my camera placement/angle selections. Any other suggestions are welcome, of course. Shot RAW with a Pentax k200d/18-55WR, mostly stopped down to 16, all 100 ISO. Some post-processing in photoshop: exposure, white balance, alignment, sharpening, resizing. All 10 MP's and resized to 700x500. If anyone has suggestions for processing photos for display on the forums, I'd love to hear it (for example, sharpen before or after I resize?). 1. Basic hallway shot. This one was stopped down to 22, hence the contrast. 2. I feel like I could have brought down the exposure and toned up the vibrancy on this one. 3. Got a lot of artifacts in the negative space here, seems to be an upload issue... 4. Put a -100% spherize filter on an actual sphere, gives a sort of gravity well effect... would have loved to shoot it with a fisheye, if I had one. 5. Going for big contrast here. edit: added descriptions [last edit 6/17/2011 10:43 AM by Cullivan - edited 1 times]

Uzi- location: Central Nebraska Gender: Male \|	Re: Botany Lab <Reply # 1 on 6/17/2011 9:32 PM >

	At F/16-22 your probably losing some sharpness to diffraction on a crop sensor. Also always sharpen after you re-size doing it before can make things over-sharp after you shrink them. If your shooting RAW white balance isn't that big of an issue because you can correct it later. I usually just leave it on auto and correct for the type of lighting later if needed. As far as composition/camera angle I'm no expert but just remember the rule of thirds and to pick a subject and then frame around it. Posted by Send4Help Man... Not even the mods make it to this corner of UER I feel like I am in ...well... the great plains ;) Posted by willskith Unfortunately, due to overuse of tonemapping, photography was gradually ruined and now stands with halos.