I purchased an e-book, “X series Unlimited” by Dan Bailey and spent a few hours reading that today. I didn’t learn a lot from it so far, maybe because my particular X series Fujifilm Camera is one of the oldest and simplest among them. But I did learn a couple of things, all the same. On my afternoon walk I made some new experiments with settings, and I think I got some slightly better results.
Here are a few of the photos (the rest are in my photoblog).
I’m fascinated how some plants send out leaves that are initially red, and only later change colour.
I took a few like the above while playing with the settings for enriching shadows and increasing the exposure, while staying with an f11 aperture setting for good depth of field.
The above is a nest of the pine processionary caterpillar – characteristically in a young Canary pine.
I slightly edited all of the above in LightZone – a free open source photo editing program. I am beginning to like this program. One thing I notice is that, unlike in Darktable, the styles or presets are arranged in a logical order, and it’s also possible to modify the style’s effect on an image manually. It is simpler to use and it is easier to create a workflow. Of course, it is by no means as powerful as Darktable.