Daniel's Photoblog
Morning Dew
Posted by Daniel Chen (New York, United States) on 29 November 2006 in Plant & Nature and Portfolio.
Nikon D70s - 50mm Prime @, 1/640s, f/1.8, ISO 200, Aperture Priority, Matrix Metering
Taken on: 2006-06-08_07-48-23
The next series of photos is part of my personal vision - Color and Selective Focus. And you guessed it, my 50mm f/1.8 will be used extensively.
This was taken in the park by my school, fairly early in the morning. I had some time to kill so I shot a series of pictures, and came up with this.
It was somewhat windy whet I took the shot, so i held the leaves with my hand, and set the autofocus on my camera to AF-C and snapped several pictures, this was the clearest one out of the batch
I ran the original in Photoshop and put in a Warming Filter (85), and tweaked contrast in Levels. I don't think my monitor is calibrated, so most of the levels tweaking was done solely based on the histogram. Since the photo is mostly green, I adjusted the highlight slider just enough to not blow out the green channel.
Florence from France
This is a splendi macro shot... !!! Impressive beauty of nature !
29 Nov 2006 9:56am
Henry Zhang from New York, United States
You know that I think this is awesome, especially since its so hard to get a good photo around Battery Park.
And I think a macro would suit you well. The only drawback is that you have to turn the focus ring a lot if you manual.
29 Nov 2006 10:59pm
Michael Zhang from New York City, United States
That drop of water on the top of the leaf makes this exceptional. My only complaint is to maybe sharpen this a bit in Photoshop because understandably, f/1.8 is very soft.
30 Nov 2006 1:56am
Henry Zhang from New York, United States
Interesting thing I just noticed: the EXIF data reads 75mm instead of 50mm but I know that the only 1.8 you have is the 50. Very strange. I wonder if Nikon's multiply by the crop factor automatically.
30 Nov 2006 10:21pm
Nikon D70s
1/320 second
F/1.8
50 mm