The Olympus E-system thread

The crab

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lol. wtf Mino? these are so crisp and clear and the colors are great..as is the comp....I am your biggest fan...you singlehandedly have gotten me to consider swtiching to Olympus....
 
Thanks Rick...The lighting on the last one was a little low on the subject but he was under a large bridge. I am going to upgrade to the e-3 sometime mid year. I love the fact that it's splash proof (I can shoot in the rain, a big plus in Vancouver:) and the articulating lcd screen, just like the DVX 100, it takes all my lenses and has a larger viewfinder. It also has the fastest autofocus system in the known universe this week! I would have to say I'm totally sold on Olympus cameras. To be fair though, I have never used any other DSLR cameras and I imagine most have their strengths and weaknesses. At it's price point though, I have to side with the e-510.
 
Thanks Strancali. I mostly shoot with a 40-150 mm kit lens as it is the most versatile of my two lenses IMO. The reason I mention that as part of PP is that I quite often have a crop in mind when I take the shot so I really don't care what is outside the mental box I have inserted as the final image when I look through the viewfinder because I'm going to lose it in post. From there I adjust the levels manually as I find the auto levels is way off most of the time. Next, I adjust the overall color using PS selective color adjustment allowing a tweak of all colors individually. Occasionally an image gets a small amount of HDR treatment to enhance detail (as with the seagull/fish image above). Finally, after sizing the image down to web posting size, I add one shot of sharpen in PS to give back the crispness of the image I seem to lose when down sizing. Oh and I always add a border as I think it helps complete the image somehow. Hope that explains it:)
 
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Very nice mino. You're right about borders in the photos. Some how that adds the final touch to it. I still have a lot to learn with PS. I just bought a 40D kit and I'm looking to buy a better lens but so far I'm very happy with the camera. I hope to produce some nice photos like yours one day.

Happy New Year!
 
Today was interesting...I found the ass end of a ship and have no clue where the front went

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A couple from a local car show this summer a little HDR treatment here, hopefully not too much to p off the purists:) I thought this was a child leaning on this car but it turned out to be a big doll.

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WOW! Mino, do you do your HDR in PS or with Photomatix? I'm debating whether to buy Photomatix or not.
 
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