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The_Other_One · Jun 9, 2006, 1:47 PM

I was messing with my new FZ20 and it's lens hood. I saw some kids playing and thought I'd try to "spy" on them using full telephoto. This was done without a tripod, so I'm quite pleased. Auto settings, probably ISO100(I forgot right off...)

Telecorder · Jun 9, 2006, 3:32 PM

Nice tele shot for handheld and the action at a distance! I might suggest you take a quick pass through either Picasa2 or other imaging editor to tweak it for highlights, shadows and midtones to make it really stand out...

The_Other_One · Jun 9, 2006, 4:31 PM

I've got a huge photo job coming up, so I need some practice tweaking the photos... I'll give Picasa2 a shot. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll repost if I make something decent.

Telecorder · Jun 9, 2006, 5:07 PM

Darren-

Hope you don't mind, I ran your forum image through Picasa2 and used its standard Auto Contrast to get this result:

And your original using a bit of shadows slider, sharpen slider and a tad of minus saturation to arrive at this image..

Of course, PSE4 offers a bit more powerful PP tweaks but at $70 or so...

LVL Adj+Focus Magic - 2-pixel OOF at 50%+Bottom Crop+Adj Lighting-4% Darken Highlights/+10% Midtone Contrast + USM - 36% - 0.7-pixels - 3-levels gave this image

Good luck on your pending photo project!
Let me know if you'd like me to delete the posted images...

Jun 9, 2006, 1:47 PM	#1
The_Other_One Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 112	I was messing with my new FZ20 and it's lens hood. I saw some kids playing and thought I'd try to "spy" on them using full telephoto. This was done without a tripod, so I'm quite pleased. Auto settings, probably ISO100(I forgot right off...) Attached Images

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Jun 9, 2006, 3:32 PM	#2
Telecorder Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 490	Nice tele shot for handheld and the action at a distance! I might suggest you take a quick pass through either Picasa2 or other imaging editor to tweak it for highlights, shadows and midtones to make it really stand out...

Jun 9, 2006, 4:31 PM	#3
The_Other_One Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 112	I've got a huge photo job coming up, so I need some practice tweaking the photos... I'll give Picasa2 a shot. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll repost if I make something decent.

Jun 9, 2006, 5:07 PM	#4
Telecorder Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 490	Darren- Hope you don't mind, I ran your forum image through Picasa2 and used its standard Auto Contrast to get this result: And your original using a bit of shadows slider, sharpen slider and a tad of minus saturation to arrive at this image.. Of course, PSE4 offers a bit more powerful PP tweaks but at $70 or so... LVL Adj+Focus Magic - 2-pixel OOF at 50%+Bottom Crop+Adj Lighting-4% Darken Highlights/+10% Midtone Contrast + USM - 36% - 0.7-pixels - 3-levels gave this image Good luck on your pending photo project! Let me know if you'd like me to delete the posted images...