Originally posted by Mikesul Emacs, It is great to see you posting again. Your photos are always interesting.
Thank you for kind words.
I was looking for sky shots in my collection (what has left after HDD failure happened in april – not a big deal if you ask me, just saying to stress that was not particularly complicated or long process): sky shots typically has (if not taken in counter sun light) quite a narrow (relatively) brightness variation and once properly processed can reveal unusual pics. Example (top is original, the postprocessed variant at the bottom – this was taken with a phone).
The «secret» is trivial: enhance contrast to death (thus "spread" the densely distributed signal among the whole histogram and even beyond that), then drop the exposure to save overburned parts – we sacrifice darker part of signal though, but it very worthy in this case. Obviously, larger sensors are much more robust with less noise and better tonality, so I hoped for some nice files to earn some likes in Instagram (I love likes
, @emacs_still_destroys_vi is my nick name there BTW). You see that processed file is not particularly bad and it in fact is, especially for small phone screens, but I actually looked for the shots taken in dull weather without noticeable clouds, with boring gray veil — those are especially interesting, because cameras (obviously, with sony sensors) see much better than a human eye and sometimes you can reveal just exciting images that sometimes resemble exciting galaxy wonderful shots from space telescopes. Processing procedure is slightly upgraded though: saturation should be raised as well. And this kills JPGs, which manages to stay being relatively good at first two steps.
So, I didn't found those, but saw some nice cloudy panorama material and quite good cityscape shot, those are all from summer.
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