Leaves in the Bushes (Please view larger) [shot hand-held at 1/100 sec, f/5, ISO 800]

Amazing detail!

 

Here is a 100% crop.

 

--Lannie

Here is detail on the front of the house.

 

--Lannie

Here is more detail on the front.

 

--Lannie

Here are more railing and leaves.

 

--Lannie

Here is another angle.

 

--Lannie

Here is a window and part of a crepe myrtle.

 

--Lannie

Here is part of the uppermost window visible on this side of the house.

 

--Lannie

The original file was shot as a raw file (Nikon's NEF), after which exposure compensation was reduced somewhat in post processing.

 

It was shot hand-held at 1/100 sec, f/5, ISO 800.  I never shoot at f/5, but when I considered going on up to 5.6, I decided that I might need a bit more light to get an adequately fast shutter speed, and so I stopped at f/5 on my way up from f/4 to f/5.6.  There were probably crisper shots made from this angle, but this seemed good enough.  No sharpening or other post processing was used in the inline photos.  No sharpening was used in the original file at the top of the page, but I think that I applied a very shallow S-curve, and perspective correction was applied.  Or perhaps I brought down the levels a bit in lieu of using curves.  I really don't remember.

 

The files from the D800E are quite useable when it is shot hand-held, even at sunset, if the ISO is bumped up a bit.  ISO 800 was used here since it rarely causes much noise, but is usually fast enough to get a decent shutter speed for hand-held shooting.

 

I have the D3s, but more and more I shoot with the D800E.  The big files are typically not a problem if a keep enough free hard disk space.  These were processed on a modest Lenovo laptop--all just for fun.

 

I'm sorry I lost the blue sky on this shot.  I think that it would have been a very good shot with the wonderful blue sky that I had captured moments earlier shooting back to the northwest.

 

--Lannie

I shot this one hand-held on a D800E. I have posted a lot of inlineshots of details of the house. Please view and comment.

--Lannie

Hi Lannie,

   I am with Diane the details on the house are amazing.  The colorful leaves on the tree's & on the ground complete's the scene.  Thanks for sharing.  Take care, Patsy

Thank you, Patsy.

 

--Lannie