Hi Dan...hi everyone!

It has been a while from my latest post here...so I thought I'll drop a line to say "hi!" :-) Keep up the good work!

In these years, I have travelled a lot...these are just few of my favourite photos taken in 2007 and 2008!

http://www.juzaphoto.com/shared_files/photos2 ...

Very nice! And the 3rd and fourth lutz reworks make it even better!

Fantastic image Charles!

http://www.juzaphoto.com/npn/127.jpg

Nikon D70, Nikkor 18-70 @ 25, 1/30 f11, iso 200, RAW.

I've just come back from the rally ;-)
There were many "elaborated" cars and also some prototypes, as the one that you see in this photo. Pretty funny 8)

I used a slow shutter speed and I "tracked" the ...

Great shot!

How tries have you made? What kind of flash have you used?

I toke near 60 shots and I kept the 20 better ones. This photo is my favourite one.

I used the in-camera flash of my D70...it is not very powerful, but for macro shots it is enough.
Anyway, in this photo the main souce of ...

Nikon D70, Nikkor 70-300 @ 240, 1/100 f11, iso 200, raw, flash, tripod.

This is one of the most beautiful italian butterflies IMO.

Comments and critiques are appreciated!

The halo reduction works well(the halo has disappeared), but the image looks a bit softer than mine(see magnified crops : http://www.juzaphoto.com/npn/halo_hnf_01.jpg )...there can be various reasons :

- noise filtering
The original image was taken at the lowest ISO value of my D70 and it was very ...

Hi Dan,
I remove the halos "manually" with the pencil tool of Windows' Paint...a slow process, but it works

This is the not sharpened copy :

http://www.juzaphoto.com/npn/juza_red-flower.jpg

Taken with Nikon D70.

Post processing : saturation, sharpening, halo remotion.

This time I had to fight with a green halo

(you can see the photo before the halo remotion here--->
http://www.juzaphoto.com/npn/halo_116.jpg )

This is crop from the original,not resized, image:

http://www.juzaphoto.com/npn/halo.jpg

Note : in this crop I applied only sharpening, the colors are still inaccurate (the sky was slightly overexposed, instead in the final image it has its original dark tone - I forgot to say that I adjusted ...

Hi Dan,
cool shot!

My only suggestion is to apply a bit less contrast...in the second version the whites looks "hot" (too bright) and the photo loses a little of its delicate, dreamy mood.

I like your picture very much. I wonder if it would be possible for you to post another copy of the picture before you removed the sharpening halos so we can compare them in that respect. if you can, I would appreciate it. Floyd Grant

Hi Floyd,
thanks for the comment :-) , I'll post the other ...

http://www.juzaphoto.com/npn/112.jpg

Nikon D70, Nikkor 18-70 at 18, 1/80 f16, iso 200, RAW, tripod.

Post processing : sharpening, 100% of full frame.

In late sixties a sky-lift and some buldings were built on Mt.Bue (Italy). After some years, it failed (I do not know the precise reason ...

Have you tried to use smart blur in Photoshop?

It is supposed to blur background and keep focused parts intact.

Dan

I have only a demo version of photoshop 5 and I rarely use it (it is quite old and it does not allow to save the image). The full version is it far too expensive for me,and anyway ...

http://www.juzaphoto.com/photos/17.jpg

Nikon D70, AF Nikkor 70-300 f4-5.6 ED D, 1/4000 f11, iso 1600. Piacenza, Italy.

Post processing : noise filtering, saturation, sharpening, minor cloning. The image is a 50% crop from the original 6 megapixel image.


The use of high iso permits to freeze ...