Detail Man
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Once upon a time when I was naive enough to trust my Panasonic "Auto WB" in low-level dusky light, my DMC-LZ5 and DMC-FZ30 would flip into a mode at some low-light threshold where both Blue and some Red channel shadow-tone emphasis would pop up in the image Histogram, and lend an (unnatural, but to me compelling) Bluish glow to the image. Thus, a fair number of my early "gems" were actually a result of "camera malfunction" - but, following my "mind's eye", I did not know or care so much about the "hows" as the "whats", and what I saw as pleasing to the soul.
The DMC-FZ30 had such a charm to it that I used to adjust on-camera Saturation to "High" and wander looking for beauty to witness and (hopefully) record. I have found that image cannot really be improved by ordinary post-processing measures - it has it's own charm right out of the camera (with only a reduction in "Brightness"; mild USM applied at the re-sampled 1024x786 pixel-size).
A lovely orange tulip basks in it's final days of Spring on a warm evening nearing sundown ... gone within days back to the earth ... but beautiful in it's moments under the sun ...
Panasonic DMC-FZ30 - ISO = 80, F = 4.0, Ts = 1/15
The DMC-FZ30 had such a charm to it that I used to adjust on-camera Saturation to "High" and wander looking for beauty to witness and (hopefully) record. I have found that image cannot really be improved by ordinary post-processing measures - it has it's own charm right out of the camera (with only a reduction in "Brightness"; mild USM applied at the re-sampled 1024x786 pixel-size).
A lovely orange tulip basks in it's final days of Spring on a warm evening nearing sundown ... gone within days back to the earth ... but beautiful in it's moments under the sun ...
Panasonic DMC-FZ30 - ISO = 80, F = 4.0, Ts = 1/15