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Just for good measure, here’s one final picture from my half-hour wander through Grace’s grandparents’ yard — a large tree that sits just astride their driveway.

I’m usually leery of using the 17 mm focal length on my stabilized lens, because it tends not to be all that sharp, and as an added bonus often tends to inflict rather pronounced barrel distortion on objects in the image. For this shot, though, that widest-possible focal length worked out not badly at all, owing (I think) to the angle from which I was viewing the tree.

The branches of the tree are a bit tangled, but for the most part they flare out from the trunk of the tree in a rather visually appealing way. Green and brown play off of each other rather nicely, and even a few hints of the blue sky (which is mostly washed out, but not completely so) poke their way into the shot. I took this by just standing beneath the tree and looking more or less straight up, and I’m fairly pleased with the results.

Edit-wise, I applied my usual calibration/Punch preset, did a touch of noise reduction, and dropped some of the colour channel saturations down to reduce spurious details. I also ran this photo through iPhoto’s “Enhance” feature, which brought out the last of its detail quite handily.

~ by Kenneth on April 8, 2008.