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Tsaritsyno Park in the raw (21 photos)

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Went to Tsaritsyno Park today to see how they are coming along with the restoration of Catherine the Great's palace. Looks pretty nice, has an underground entrance into the palace museums. I still have not made up my mind if whether the rebuilt palace or the old palace ruins are better. Here are a few of the photos I took today, all shot in raw with my S5500, using program auto mode and negative exposure compensation to preserve the sky so it would not wash out. If you shoot raw, you really should get yourself a psd, really comes in handy, I just pop the card into the psd when it gets full, and pop another card into my camera so I can keep on taking photos while my full card is copied onto the psd, then once it has finished copying, I have a free card ready to use again. Here are a few of the photos I took tis afternoon. I'm pretty happy with them, I've learned to use the white balance as shot, instead of trying to match the conditions, seems to work better for me.
JD



they are constructing a fountain in the middle of the pond

























I did not notice the water drop on my lens, a careless mistake cost me a good photo



another careless mistake













 
This is a muuuch better set of pictures. Some were overexposed but some are very beautifully exposed. And almost all have a subject.

I liked the most the one with the policemen on horses. Also the last two are beautiful pictures.
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Victor
Bucuresti, Romania
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Catherine had great taste in architects. You've certainly captured the mood in your photos.

I picked up an F20 this week and I must concur with your assessment of the gimp's auto level. Does about all I think my f20 shots might need.
 
Very nice series, thanks for posting. You are just visiting Moscow or live there? Just curious since I used to live there for over 20 years.
Some of your photos are really dull and can be easily improved by PP. Example:
Original



Corrected (Some levels adjustment, shadows/highlights and applied a little of unsharp mask)



Regards,
George
 
GAREB said:
Went to Tsaritsyno Park today to see how they are coming along with
the restoration of Catherine the Great's palace.
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Is that close to Moscow?
GAREB said:
If you shoot raw, you really should get yourself a psd,
really comes in handy, I just pop the card into the psd when it
gets full, and pop another card into my camera so I can keep on
taking photos while my full card is copied onto the psd, then once
it has finished copying, I have a free card ready to use again.
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I'll try shooting some RAW image in my E900.
GAREB said:
Here are a few of the photos I took tis afternoon. I'm pretty
happy with them, I've learned to use the white balance as shot,
instead of trying to match the conditions, seems to work better for
me.
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This series has almost perfect white balance. Very good looking picture indeed. Yet I tried some simple PP (Levels/Saturation/Sharpening). Your S5500 is still a potential camera.

ORIGINAL:



After PP:



ORIGINAL:



After PP:



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Ashok
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Fujifilm E900
 
This one is better but again, some details are lost (or not revealed?). Look, for example, the dark horse chest, in my version it's more "transparent" IMO.

I don't know what you use for post processing, I used Photoshop CS, and adjusted a little levels, then tweaked shadows/highlights, then unsharp mask twice with different settings.
George
 
very nice series =) I didn't notice the water drop until I saw your comment, even though it's my favorite from the series xD besides, perhaps some careful cloning could get rid of it, if you don't like it...

again, beautiful photos, thanks for sharing them =)
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GeorgeM said:
I don't know what you use for post processing, I used Photoshop CS,
and adjusted a little levels, then tweaked shadows/highlights, then
unsharp mask twice with different settings.
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For previous photos, I adjusted levels, boost saturation little bit, then unsharp mask. I did it using GIMP. However, I didn't recover shadows/highlights using curve.

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Now, I recovered the shadows of the previous image by raising the curve in the shadow region.



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Ashok
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