08 February 2009

It's Back!



Yes, I finally got my lens back, and it's workin' fine!

Got a chance to give it a decent workout on Saturday at Reifel, where there was an excellent selection of subjects to shoot.

Being Sunday, here's a two-fer - a his & her of wood ducks, one of the more intricately colourful birds around, both the he and she.

Truth be told, these colours may be a little boosted - there was quite a difference between the Adobe RBG version and the sRGB version. sRGB just doesn't have the colour gamut required to portray these shots accurately (although I might have achieved a closer match if I'd shot them in sRBG).

There will almost certainly be one or two more shots from Saturday's outing to post a little later in the week but I hope you enjoy these ones for now.

And thanks to Katrina and Alison for taking the time to leave comments on most of my recent posts - it's nice to know that someone's out there looking at what I've posted.

5 comments:

Anonymous 11 February, 2009 17:43  

Love the gorgeous wing featehrs. Is this a natural colour? Did you enhance them at all?

Kendall 12 February, 2009 14:36  

There was no intentional enhacement of the colours in these two shots, but I'm not sure if they're natural or not. When converting a picture that was recorded using the aRGD (adobe RGB) colour space to sRGB (web standard colour space) there is a colour shift that occurs. In some images the shift is more pronounced than others. In this case, the blues changed quite a bit. I'd say that the original aRGB image more closely represented what I saw, but the sRGB image is probably what you'd record if using that colour space in the first place, and it would look 'natural' when you got home and looked at it. So, in the end, a tough question to answer...

Anonymous 12 February, 2009 18:01  

What a cute couple of ducks!

Anonymous 12 February, 2009 21:57  

You are still verbose.

Alison Cole 14 February, 2009 19:22  

I love the first one! The colours are fantastic!!!! So beautiful!

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