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By stark (Wed Nov 22, 2006 at 04:57:16 AM EST) photos, photo of the day (all tags)
Some nice autumnal (or fall, for those of a transatlantic countenance) colour.


Red Leaf
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Beautiful by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #1 Wed Nov 22, 2006 at 05:34:41 AM EST
Lost a lot of detail in the background though. Is that from compressing the picture?

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Pesky JPEG compression by stark (4.00 / 1) #4 Wed Nov 22, 2006 at 09:09:59 AM EST
Anywhere you have very subtle changes in colour you tend to get those artifacts; however, they are much less obvious on a monitor with lots of colours.

I have a few monitors here at work; one is 16bit and the others are 32. The same photo on the 16bit display looks significantly worse.

Am tempted to make a more unusual crop of this as on the original you can make out the texture of the leaf itself - the individual cells and ridges.
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Never thought about all that by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #7 Wed Nov 22, 2006 at 09:35:48 AM EST
Is the original photo format (in the camera as it were) jpeg as well? Will a decent quality print look better than on a monitor?

Got to bare all this stuff in mind if I get a digital SLR.

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Original can be in JPG or RAW format by stark (4.00 / 1) #8 Wed Nov 22, 2006 at 10:24:04 AM EST
RAW is what comes out of the camera and is in 16 bit colour - essentially it's the raw data and needs to be processed, whereas when you get JPG output the camera has done some processing on it already and reduced the colour depth to 8 bit colour.

This was basically taken in RAW and converted via Photoshop. I had to reduce the colour depth to 8 bit in order to save it as a JPG.

I'm not completely familiar with all this colour depth stuff myself; all I can say is that I've yet to see jpeg artifacts on my prints when I've taken shots using JPG rather than RAW, and then messed around with them for a bit in Photoshop and re-saved them as JPG. So I wouldn't worry too much about it.

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Attn stark infidel... by Metatone (2.00 / 0) #2 Wed Nov 22, 2006 at 07:15:48 AM EST
Is this the top of a branch, or did you maneuver this leaf into position?

It's very nicely done. did you take one from more around to the left as well?



It's posed by stark (2.00 / 0) #5 Wed Nov 22, 2006 at 09:12:24 AM EST
I was a bad person and plucked the leaf from the tree. I then had my glamourous assistant (well, one of my visiting parents) hold it up to the light so I could grab a shot.

It was a quite curly so it was a bit tricky to get a full-frontal photo :-)
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Well done! Good background. by greyrat (4.00 / 1) #3 Wed Nov 22, 2006 at 08:02:41 AM EST
Soon, It will look like this:
Frosty Leaf
I should post a hi-res copy of this one. The ice literally looks like sugar.
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Thanks by stark (2.00 / 0) #6 Wed Nov 22, 2006 at 09:14:04 AM EST
Not sure it will get cold enough to get the icing you have on your shot!

As I mentioned to nebbish, I'm tempted to post a larger-res version of this one as the close-up texture of the leaf is really beautiful.
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Let's both post hi-res. by greyrat (2.00 / 0) #9 Wed Nov 22, 2006 at 10:34:33 AM EST
I can crop mine down to a detail of the primary subject and probably still get in under Hulver's size limit. I'd like to see the detail on yours. And mind you, I'm working with a point-and-shoot so you're going to kill me on quality.

P.S. I'll PM you my sig file.
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