Too much green?

[Mad_Sunday]

Hi, I'm quite pleased with this lens. How can I improve the look of this woodland shot?

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[Manofolympus]

Looks quite good as is-I might crop in a bit tighter as I am not sure the (very) out of focus greenery in the foreground is contributing to the picture

[ermintrude]

I love it! I might crop it a little as theyre very centralk, having said that the size does add to the 'peeping' style...

I think it needs a fix on the colour though - its quite cold and blue at the mo (although it could just be my monitor), so Id play with the colour balance and saturate it a little more.

[Mad_Sunday]

I took the file to boots this afternoon on a SD card and asked them to print it at 15X10 just as it was. According to there "machine" it was a "poor" picture and would not produce a good print? Maybe the lack of colour/contrast?.

I told them to print it anyway.

Looks wicked

Lens is an old Soligor 135mm (EFL of 270mm on the Oly e-510)

[ermintrude]

Id imagine they meant the file size, how big is it?

[Mad_Sunday]

The file is 4MB, 3200X2400 uncropped from a 10MP sensor.
There were 3 files on the card, this one had a large red "!" over it.

[ermintrude]

If you printed at 300 ppi you'd get it to about 8 x 10 (inches). 240 ppi takes it to about 10 x 13 so they might say you were pushing it a bit, depends on the quality of the pic itself really. I doint know what the "!" means, youd have to read the manual.

[ermintrude]

Had a quick fiddle:

[ermintrude]

Mm bit too yellow now, but you get the idea.

[aiwa_yamaha]

Nice photo. I try and include alot of depth (layers) in my photos at the moment.

[Mad_Sunday]

That does look better ermintrude, what software are you using and what did you do with it?

I made an error above, the lens was in fact my Chinon 200mm f3.5 (£9 on eBay) so the Effective Focal length is in fact 400mm thats the reason for the shallow DOF.

Their "machine" indicated the file as being "suspect" before the print size had been chosen.

I used manual for the shot, perhaps it's slightly under exposed too.

[ermintrude]

That was in Photoshop, but it was only basic stuff, you could do it in any program. Just did Levels and Colour Balance, then a quick tweak of Saturation and a touch of contrast. Then sharpened and cropped it. Took about 2 mins.

The dof is not that shallow really, its just that the OOF grass is very close to your lens. At 400mm your dof will not be very shallow at all.

[Mad_Sunday]

Thanks, I had a play myself with GIMP and I managed to get a very similar result.

Cheers