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You must have been close to the yarn, because at f/2.8 the only ball of yarn really in focus is the dark red one between the center of the frame and the top right. And it is in very good focus for...

The XE-1 file. Fuji RFC (by Silkypix): demosaic, keep contrast lowRaw Therapee - LAB curves and initial sharpen by RL deconvolutionPicture Window Pro - levels and sharpen; convert from AdobeRGB to...

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The camera captured amazing texture on the rose petals. Now, can someone show and tell us how what such a flower calls for? I was not there, but when I see a dark, rich red rose, the texture of the...

Every lens has a personality. The Sigma DP Merrills have fixed lenses. What you get from a Fuji XE-1 depends on the lens you mount.

Not qualified to judge street photography. First and last ones have mood. I do notice that the last photo is oversharpened. Notice the white halo along the backside of the man on the left. You...

That is certainly a fine portrait of an elegant lady. There should be a good reason when two portions of a photo compete for primary attention. Here, area is larger but the other area is in color....

Thanks for the link. Nice that you can select a film treatment then adjust exposure, contrast, saturation, and grain right in the standalone program.

In your position I would first decide between 35 and 50 mm -- review my work and anticipate whether I would ever get a full-frame camera. For a 50mm, the Zeiss Sonnar 50/1.5 certainly gives you...

For the painterly effect, you might be interested in the watercolor treatment, probably not as strong as in this photo: (The bird was exempted.) Large   A Watercolor transformation is in Picture...

Fuji XE-1 with Voigtlander Color Skopar 21/4.Fuji Raw File Converter (Silkypix) to Raw Therapee to Picture Window Pro. Large

Aperture is set manually. Different program modes can be imagined for what to do with shutter speed and ISO. Pentax SLRs, for example, extend the P-A-S-M series to additional choices. That said, it...

I have a third-party manual lens and the Fuji 18-55 zoom. When the zoom is mounted and I press the AE-L button, the information bar at the bottom of the viewfinder shows E L , the two letters...

Sorry, I meant "layer" in a generic not technical sense. Expand the dimension of the image at the top and fill it with more sky ... if it seems worth figuring out how to do that in Photoshop or...

To implement a couple of good suggestions already made, you can crop about 20% off the right and add a layer of sky at the top, working from a file before vignetting, of course. Strong reduction of...

Nothing negative about Sigma intended. If only the nuclear industry had the same attention to detail, Japan and the world might have been spared the ongoing disaster emanating from Fukushima.

In Etchells' second paragraph we learn the factory is only 90 minutes by car from Fukushima, ground zero of a nuclear disaster slipping toward an even more disastrous sequel. Ah, the radiation!

For the background commented on by others, you might like it if you apply darkening contrast to the upper half of the lightness (HSV-V for example), on a selection of the background onl,y of course.

Fuji Raw File Converter comes with the camera. Just keep it simple. Start from the Super Neutral "taste." Go down the list below taste, adjusting exposure, white balance, and perhaps contrast....

That affects your choice of lens to reach beyond your current focal lengths.