February 7th Olympus/Panasonic POTW

<p>Overcast, windy, rainy, gross! PEI, Canada in December. Olympus E5/12-60mm<br>

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<p>Monterey Municipal Wharf</p><div></div>

<p>After the Service</p><div></div>

<p>something very old</p><div></div>

<p>#2</p><div></div>

<p>#3</p><div></div>

<p>present day</p><div></div>

<p>Another shot of the same beach, processed differently. Other one was at 70mm effective, this is at 120mm effective.</p>

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<p>Wind and rain, rain and wind - so just another camera-waving exercise. Birch trees and slate (as if it matters)</p><div></div>

<p>...and a picture that's sharp and recognisable from the sun the week before</p><div></div>

<p>Nice shot, John. I like the ice leading your eye into the rock formation</p>

<p>Thanks Patrick - the rock formation is separated from the grass by a 700 metre drop and over a kilometre - it's quite big! Where are those lovely sandstone rocks of yours?</p>

<p>Here are a few from Birmingham , Alabama at Sloss Furnace. a incredible place to shoot at a real Iron foundry...National Landmark, about 3 hour drive from Nashville. I have been several times over the years and see different things each shoot. I used a Panasonic G1 with Voigtlander 21mm and a Jupiter 8 50mm LTM Russian lens.<br>

<a href="http://www.slossfurnaces.com/">http://www.slossfurnaces.com/</a></p>

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<p>J8</p><div></div>

<p>J8 Sloss</p><div></div>

<p>The new lens :D It back focused a bit, but +9 compensation seems to have sorted it out nicely.</p>

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<p>Panasonic wide open. I know, not a particularly interesting shot, but you get the idea :P<br>

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<p>Love your shots Ronny. What do you process your images with?<br>

Personally, I don't have the usual editing software such as lightroom/photoshop, so I have to resort to GIMP and Nikon Capture NX2.</p>

<p>A real picture with the E5/25mm f/1.4 Panasonic. Shot at f/8, image stabilization turned off.</p>

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<p>Something else very old. Olympus E-510 with Leica Elmarit-R 60/2.8 Macro</p><div></div>

<p>Ice formation</p>

<p>Baby Icicles</p><div></div>

<p>Patrick I use Photoshop CS2,,the look of the photo is more how I have the parameters of the camera setup.I'm a jpg shooter so it is like I'm shooting slide film, I expose for the bright areas to hold detail, and have my Panasonics(LX3 & G1) set to nostalgic, which is not as a punchy color setting then I have the saturation,sharpnes contrast +1, I keep the camera at -1/3 exp comp,to insure no highlight blowout,then just adjust the histogram in PS. I then add some black punch level with Pixel Genuis Photokit to give more depth with the added black level. The Panasonics have a look that I really like. Thanks </p>

<p>Interesting, Ronny. Perhaps my next m4/3 camera will be Panasonic. Well, it most likely would have been anyways :P</p>

<p>I will wait at least until December 2011 before buying a new body though! I switch cameras too far too often.</p>

<p>Trying Beerbrain's trick. Nostalgic, Saturation +2, everything else at zero. Backed off the red & yellow in post.</p><div></div>