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First day with the OM-1

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Gary Blake • Senior Member • Posts: 2,011

First day with the OM-1

10 months ago

I think its a keeper.....

Raws developed in ART (Raw Therapee) and finished in Photoshop CS6

Hazel the Chocolate Lab puppy in flight

Female ruby throat hummingbird

Gary

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DDoram • Forum Pro • Posts: 10,369

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In reply to Gary Blake • 10 months ago

Looks good Gary

Dale

Gary Blake wrote:

I think its a keeper.....

Raws developed in ART (Raw Therapee) and finished in Photoshop CS6

Hazel the Chocolate Lab puppy in flight

Female ruby throat hummingbird

Female ruby throat hummingbird

Gary

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Doxa750 • Contributing Member • Posts: 903

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In reply to Gary Blake • 10 months ago

Very nice and I do love that dog jumping right in front of you image. Super capture, I feel the dog alive and moving by looking at the image!!!

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Joe Lynch • Veteran Member • Posts: 3,186

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In reply to Gary Blake • 10 months ago

Golly, what an excellent first day!! Thanks for posting these. Great photos.

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ProDude • Senior Member • Posts: 4,857

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In reply to Gary Blake • 10 months ago

Gary Blake wrote:

I think its a keeper.....

Raws developed in ART (Raw Therapee) and finished in Photoshop CS6

Hazel the Chocolate Lab puppy in flight

Female ruby throat hummingbird

Female ruby throat hummingbird

Gary

Website: www.photographybygaryblake.com

I'm with you Gary. I'm fighting off selling my Canon R5 and several of the boat anchor RF L lenses. This camera and it's exquisite lenses are spoiling me. The focus is scary fast and accurate too. Right there with my R5 and frankly that is the best AF out there right now above the Nikon and Sony's I've used.

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DavZell • Senior Member • Posts: 2,358

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In reply to Gary Blake • 10 months ago

Very nice, Gary. We each have our own preferences, and in this case, I thought the images looked just a little flat. I threw some minor contrast (curves, levels, whatever tools you like) and the subjects were more vibrant and isolated. The only drawback was loss of fur detail in the dog's chest. I could have preserved it, but I am just on a tablet today.

Have fun, and happy shooting!

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Rupert the bear • Regular Member • Posts: 107

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In reply to Gary Blake • 10 months ago

Gary Blake wrote:

I think its a keeper.....

Raws developed in ART (Raw Therapee) and finished in Photoshop CS6

Hazel the Chocolate Lab puppy in flight

Female ruby throat hummingbird

Female ruby throat hummingbird

Gary

Website: www.photographybygaryblake.com

Superb!

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Grimstod • Contributing Member • Posts: 598

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In reply to Gary Blake • 10 months ago

Some really nice shots for the first day!

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ReedW • Senior Member • Posts: 1,007

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In reply to Gary Blake • 10 months ago

What version of RawTherapee are you using? I took a look at the site and it appears the latest version is 5.8 from a couple of years ago, which pre-dates the OM-1. I have 5.8 installed and it doesn't work with OM-1 raw files.

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OP Gary Blake • Senior Member • Posts: 2,011

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ReedW wrote:

What version of RawTherapee are you using? I took a look at the site and it appears the latest version is 5.8 from a couple of years ago, which pre-dates the OM-1. I have 5.8 installed and it doesn't work with OM-1 raw files.

Reed,

I was in the same boat with the regular version of Raw Therapee. There is a sub version called ART (Another Raw Therapee), they call it a fork of Raw Therapee.

Slightly different, there are a few tools missing and some added but it has the same basic functionality and the menus are similar. This one is also open source and has been updated for the OM1. Looks like I can get pretty much the same end results with it. I will be using this one until the developers get around to updating the regular version, seems there is not a lot of action going there though...

https://bitbucket.org/agriggio/art/wiki/Home

Gary

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faunagraphy • Senior Member • Posts: 1,622

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ProDude wrote:

Gary Blake wrote:

I think its a keeper.....

Raws developed in ART (Raw Therapee) and finished in Photoshop CS6

Hazel the Chocolate Lab puppy in flight

Female ruby throat hummingbird

Female ruby throat hummingbird

Gary

Website: www.photographybygaryblake.com

I'm with you Gary. I'm fighting off selling my Canon R5 and several of the boat anchor RF L lenses. This camera and it's exquisite lenses are spoiling me. The focus is scary fast and accurate too. Right there with my R5 and frankly that is the best AF out there right now above the Nikon and Sony's I've used.

It thrills me to read comments like this one. Without a doubt, I am biased in favor of M43. I have loved Micro Four Thirds ever since I got my first (E-PL3) in 2013. Over the years I've heard so many snide and/or ignorant comments from users of other formats - even those who used basic cameras like Canon Rebels. Asking me when I'll "upgrade" to a real camera, or criticizing the DOF of the format, or more. So many on this forum itself.

And for the past few years of course, people have been predicting the end for this format. And I have thought at times if I've cornered myself into a dead end, or what I'm missing out on, and of course watching the Sony A9 fly circles around E-M1 series AF. Wondering if I am foolish to hold on to my Pro lenses rather than selling them and recovering some of the investment while they still hold value.

And now I feel vindicated, like all those years of holding on to the format and continuing to invest in it have been worth it. I have also stepped back from spending my time on forums and instead photographing more - in part because I no longer feel like I need to defend the format I love and believe in. Comments like yours are nice to read because they tell me that it isn't just me. The OM-1 has given us our "E-M5" moment again.

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SkiHound • Veteran Member • Posts: 3,939

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Impressive first day. Dog looks like a real player.

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RSTP14 • Veteran Member • Posts: 6,369

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These are very nice images, I think you and the OM1 will get along well.

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readyoulater • Regular Member • Posts: 206

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In reply to Gary Blake • 10 months ago

Great shots!!

I'm looking forward to my first OM-1 day... when it arrives. Hopefully next winter

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ProDude • Senior Member • Posts: 4,857

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faunagraphy wrote:

It thrills me to read comments like this one. Without a doubt, I am biased in favor of M43. I have loved Micro Four Thirds ever since I got my first (E-PL3) in 2013. Over the years I've heard so many snide and/or ignorant comments from users of other formats - even those who used basic cameras like Canon Rebels. Asking me when I'll "upgrade" to a real camera, or criticizing the DOF of the format, or more. So many on this forum itself.

And for the past few years of course, people have been predicting the end for this format. And I have thought at times if I've cornered myself into a dead end, or what I'm missing out on, and of course watching the Sony A9 fly circles around E-M1 series AF. Wondering if I am foolish to hold on to my Pro lenses rather than selling them and recovering some of the investment while they still hold value.

And now I feel vindicated, like all those years of holding on to the format and continuing to invest in it have been worth it. I have also stepped back from spending my time on forums and instead photographing more - in part because I no longer feel like I need to defend the format I love and believe in. Comments like yours are nice to read because they tell me that it isn't just me. The OM-1 has given us our "E-M5" moment again.

Do keep in mind up to this point in time, I had NO desire for mft. The Panasonic's DFD didn't cut it for me and the object tracking of the OMD's wasn't up to my R5 level to be sure. Now they ARE! the high ISO performance is astoundingly good (I can easily shoot up to 12,800 ISO and capture ALL the detail minus noise. The subject tracking blows me away, it's like glue and locks instantly.

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ReedW • Senior Member • Posts: 1,007

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In reply to Gary Blake • 10 months ago

Gary Blake wrote:

ReedW wrote:

What version of RawTherapee are you using? I took a look at the site and it appears the latest version is 5.8 from a couple of years ago, which pre-dates the OM-1. I have 5.8 installed and it doesn't work with OM-1 raw files.

Reed,

I was in the same boat with the regular version of Raw Therapee. There is a sub version called ART (Another Raw Therapee), they call it a fork of Raw Therapee.

Slightly different, there are a few tools missing and some added but it has the same basic functionality and the menus are similar. This one is also open source and has been updated for the OM1. Looks like I can get pretty much the same end results with it. I will be using this one until the developers get around to updating the regular version, seems there is not a lot of action going there though...

https://bitbucket.org/agriggio/art/wiki/Home

Gary

Hi Gary,

I switched to ON1 Photo Raw late last year and they just released an update with OM-1 support, so I'm good to go on the desktop I normally use for editing.

Thanks for the info on ART. I may look into installing ART on my travel laptop. I generally don't do any editing on the road but would like to have the option to do so if needed.

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