Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3

[Detail Man]

I processed the same DMC-LX3 RW2 using the Silkypix DS 3.021 SE that came along with my Panasonic camera, and carefully adjusted the controls in order to try to achieve a developed image as close as possible to the DxO OpticsPro 6.12 processed image.

Then I performed the same (16-bit) re-sampling (using Artizen 2.86), exactly the same (16-bit) Unsharp Masking (using Sagelight 3.102), and the same JPG conversion (using XnView 1.972).

Here is the result:

Ancient Gardens

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Here is the 16-bit Log Histogram of the 16-bit TIF Silkypix DS 3.021 SE output image-file:

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Ancient Gardens 16-bit Log Histogram

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[Detail Man]

These are hand-held shots in the range of ISO=125 to ISO=200, and Shutter-Speeds in the range of 20 -30:

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and off from the world of domesticated flora back again into the timeless forest of Fibonacci growth:

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(Sadly) saving an image in Sagelight (after using the 16-bit USM tool) strips most of the EXIF "Image" data, and all of the EXIF "Camera" data ...
(For now, until remedied), a price exacted for using the "16-bit fast-lane" all the way from the camera to the JPG conversion ...

[Detail Man]

These are hand-held shots at ISO=80, Shutter-Speed = 30, mechanically braced with OIS (Mode 2) activated:

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[Detail Man]

Here are a couple of stray shots from early this Spring taken hand-held at ISO=200 (only now processed):

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[Muddy]

I really like the ones with drews .

[thelps]

DM, P1040590 is quite an explosion of colour but I particuarly like P1010339 and the way the main subject is framed to the right with the big leaf - excellent work

[Detail Man]

Thank you for your kind words, my friends. It's good to know that someone finds some joy in my visions and efforts.

The turbulent and strange Spring has mostly passed; the flowers have for the most part fallen; the creek is now surrounded by a jungle of growth that will likely only yield a few landscape shots (assuming steady rains through June) here and there. Fall and Winter will likely (as has been the case over my brief four year stint as a photographer) be similarly sparse for subject matter.

The DMC-LX3 processed with DxO and followed by 16-bit editing functions (re-sampling and USM) has made an impressive showing - yielding imagery rivaling (and even exceeding) that rendered by my old DMC-FZ30 (which had a much larger, wider, and higher quality Leica lens-system) for beauty, clarity, color, as well as signal/noise ratio (at subject distances up to around 6 Meters).

My DMC-FZ50 (which has remained mostly unused since I bought it) will likely be the more appropriate tool with which to record the occasional (wider and farther ranging) landscape shots that I hope to be lucky enough to make under the green canopy of tree leaves sheltering my beloved creek in the near-dusky light of Summer and early Fall evenings. Since DxO does not support the DMC-FZ50 RAW shots, I will use the (under-rated) UFRaw, and the 16-bit processing tools of the Artizen and Sagelight editors, in order to bring forth a few more glimpses of Nature's beauty.

Thank you for watching and listening (and hopefully enjoying) my digital diary recording my search to witness the miraculous and sublime beauty of Nature that exists before our eyes, and under our feet. I am lucky to live near such beauty, and to have had the time and energy to yield (and to polish) a few precious gems (about one in a hundred) from a large number of diligent attempts.

I accept little personal credit for my small successes. Anybody with fairly good quality tools, some rudimentary technical know-how, and (more importantly) the time, tenacity, and dedication to record a large number of shots, find the rare gems, and lovingly polish those gems can produce similar results! I hope that you have found some of your own "poetry" in my visual "prose" ...

[Muddy]

I really like the ones with drews

Sorry Detail Man,
I mean "dews" not "drews" but definitely it's not about.. Drew Carey ....but I don't mine if it's about.... Drew Barrymore

[Detail Man]

I was thinking that you might have meant "dews"... After the rain with a clear, or partly cloudy, sky with indirect light is the ideal time/light. That you can even see the watery dew on some of the smaller flowers says good things about the DxO "Lens Softness" corrections. I am finding that my 1600x1200 pixel-size screen is not a sufficient 100% screen-size to display the fine details present in many of the images ...

[uKrris]

The colours are great as they appear on this new 'thingy' called a Mac ( which I am trying to get my mind around - received as a gift ). The subject matter is magnificent . Thanks for posting these photos - have not got to all the technical stuff but plan to do so soon. Your posts are invariably a great education for me .