I'm back in Arizona for a week, and I can't complain one bit about the weather. Sunny as always

Here's what the fall looks like here: Mosphotos.com Gallery



















EXIF info can be found when viewing the photos in the gallery (link at the top of the post). All the photos were taken with the FA* 200mm macro at ISO 400 (regrettably), and apparently my camera's internal date setting is off by one month

Note: this is my first non-Photoshop gallery! I don't have my main laptop with me, so I'm left with my small Linux notebook that I usually use for work. Select images were lightly processed in GIMP, others were just scaled.

Anyway, enjoy; C&C welcome!

[Ash]

Alarmingly colourful Adam!
Might be a little on the over-exposed/saturated side, but they're good results.
Focusing looked to be a tough issue here - ? a touch of FF happening.
The butterfly shots seem to be OK but the others aren't quite nailed sharpness-wise.

[Adam]

GIMP's sharpening tools are quite horrible to say the least; I'll have to try to photoshop these later and see if I can't get better results. I should also be able to remove the noise, as quite a bit was added using GIMP's sharpen (versus what Photoshop's smart sharpen would give).

When picking my gallery photos I went for composition over sharpness; the problem with these was mostly DOF, since it was hard for me to stop down to F11 (the point at which the lens provides a decent range) while hand-holding. #1 is also almost a 100% crop, as I couldn't get it all too close on the bee.

As far as saturation goes, I did try to really pop the colors in #5. The last photo seems to be over-saturated as well, but that's probably because I did a brightness/contrast adjustment on top of an already-saturated image (that wall was really, really red). #3, which seems to have saturated petals, is actually unedited. Note that the magnification here is about 1:2 as I was quite close to the flower.

[Adam]

Some 100%'s of #3. May need to do some shadow/highlight on the white parts of the petals to get rid of that blurred illusion.

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[Ash]

Well Adam, they're all just fine.
It's that last one that threw me off I guess - seeing the pavement in front of the pot in sharp focus but not the pot or plants themselves.
Seeing the full-size crops does show the top resolution of the lens.
Well done with these.

I'm digging the fall colour on the wall of the last one.
Those agave shadows look neat, you should try and get an isolated shot of them and nothing else, make a nice abstract.

[Adam]

I might have a few, actually! I'll see what else I can come up with.

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[the swede]

A lovelly collection!