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Walking under the shadow

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Visited Waddesden Manor today (seat of the Rothschild family in England).  Using the TL23.  After last week's experimentation with the SL2-S and 24-70SL it was nice to have the light, compact CL outfit to carry around all day instead.

Poodle and Lady:

 

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Lady and Roses (TL23 again)

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Farewell for today (TL23)

 

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An outrageously pretty lane discovered completely by accident when I had to pull over to change the baby's nappy 😁🤘

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15 hours ago, rob_w said:

Poodle and Lady:

Looking at this pic again today, I am not very happy with the B&W conversion.  If anyone wants to post suggested improvements, I am happy to take instruction!

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41 minutes ago, rob_w said:

Looking at this pic again today, I am not very happy with the B&W conversion.  If anyone wants to post suggested improvements, I am happy to take instruction!

In Levels remove blank space in the highlights, set black point, set white point, in curves lift the midtones and then linear contrast. Run sharpening over lady and dog to camouflage slight backfocus ;)

If you don't like me reposting your image, please PM, I'll remove it :)

 

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1 hour ago, rob_w said:

Looking at this pic again today, I am not very happy with the B&W conversion.  If anyone wants to post suggested improvements, I am happy to take instruction!

Rob, copied into LR. Auto Adjust; reset whites and blacks to avoid clipping; slight global sharpening adjusting edge masking and sharpen radius. Avoiding any further fiddling. The main gain was a slightly lighter appearance and subtle sharpening.  Not sure whether these subtle changes show after uploading. Given the full file, I would have selected the lady's face and decreased the facial shadow a little.

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Thanks to you both Jaap and David.  All good suggestions I will try on the original file later, and let you know how I get on.

Re the slight back focusing, I agree there is a problem because the image of the lady is not as sharp as it should be.  This is despite AF selecting her face.  If I had time, I could have checked focus manually.  But to catch both dog and lady in right positions in the pose, with both moving around and keen to continue their walk, was already a challenge.  I had to rely on AF doing its job - which it appears did not quite happen. 

BTW in the colour version there is chromatic aberration on, for example, her arm, which has a reddish halo running along its length.  LR was unable to correct this.  It has made me doubt the TL23 for the first time in 2 years of use.

I realise this is a picture thread not a discussion thread, so I'll leave it there.  Thanks both for your suggestions.

Robert

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Robert, I am not so sure there is back-focus. At that distance with a typical mid-range lens aperture, you would have considerable depth of field.  Could camera shake be a possible cause of unexpected lack of bite?

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Here is the updated version, with white/black points and sharpening adjusted.  It is possible the lack of sharpness is due to the subject moving her head at the critical moment, although the shutter speed was 1/2000 which is pretty fast!

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After sunset in the high desert around Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Two Chairs on a Veranda

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Malibu stairs

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Malibu home foundation

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High Country Roses, Banshee.   Lonesome, on the prairie.    TL 35mm 1.4

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Foggy Day ...  Owls Head Maine

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View over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains from Pecos, New Mexico....

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