White Oleander – hey, at least I know what this plant/flower is!
Not sure I will be using this one for a card for my mother though – just haven’t figured out whether I like it or not.
Have you ever just looked at an image and felt, well, blah ! ? That’s how I am with this image.
Then ‘why’ you ask, would I ever dare to post it to the world? Perhaps for feedback, perhaps for daring, perhaps for something outside myself.
Perhaps for a lead in . . . this image took quite a bit of post-production! It was shot at ISO 1600 with my Canon 10D backup camera, and while this is a fairly decent, okay DSLR, the 5d it is not – seems I have heard this before! The proof is in the pudding: in this image, the edge transfer between the flower and the background have a high amount of contrast, yes?
Well, the 10d, Canon’s first generation DSLR (this particular one was purchased back in 2004) creates an inordinate amount of fringe on these types of edges, not to mention the chromatic aberrations! Ones that are very difficult to remove using either Lightroom or Bridge’s Camera Raw sliders to correct for the problem.
The 10d also has no noise tolerance. At ISO’s 100 and 200, it functions very well, but boost the ISO to 800 or above and you have just introduced a lot of visible noise.
So, in order to clean the edges and remove the chromatic aberrations from this flower, I had to take the image into Photoshop and manually clone/heal them out – a lot of work and time that I don’t usually spend on the images in this project. Most go through a very simple workflow: capture, download and save, edit, color correction and export for web – maybe a 10-15 minute workflow process max. This image took over an hour including the time in Photoshop, and I am still not sure about it.
white oleander