Light test and color saturation

[Derrel]

I was admiring the color and tonality of the wine glass and the wine bottle ,the cork, And the grapes.The color looked really good to me, very realistic. The Canon DPP software that originally shipped with the 5D had a pretty good raw color translation, what they called " faithful @which I did not find particularly true to life, but I found very beautiful. We have come a long ways since 2006 and translating raw file data to JPEG images relies a lot less now on factory pre-determined looks,and is more individually organized by each photographer. Still I found Canon's original factory "faithful"translation very nice.

 

[Soocom1]

I was admiring the color and tonality of the wine glass and the wine bottle ,the cork, And the grapes.The color looked really good to me, very realistic. The Canon DPP software that originally shipped with the 5D had a pretty good raw color translation, what they called " faithful @which I did not find particularly true to life, but I found very beautiful. We have come a long ways since 2006 and translating raw file data to JPEG images relies a lot less now on factory pre-determined looks,and is more individually organized by each photographer. Still I found Canon's original factory "faithful"translation very nice.

True that.

I have DPP 4.whatever now and use that to translate.
I keep all the RAW images separate and convert over if I post process. The image as I said before is completely untouched except for resizing.

In the 1Ds, the glass would def. show, but past experiences was that it would be flat. This image just pops out.

 

[Designer]

I shot multiples, that was the best of the bunch.
W/O the filter the blow out was pritty harsh.
But the intent was not to display, it was to test the camera's abilities and the lens itself.

Plus given that I intend to use the lens in other situations including some portraits, the need for a polarizer was pressing.

overall, the image itself was simply a test to see if I would get the effects I wanted.

IMO it did.

Who knew a simple still life would get so much negative criticism? Composition aside, it seems to me that if you want to test your gear, have some extremes and some very close colors/values.

IOW:

very light and very dark

saturated and not saturated

primary colors and very pale shades

You needn't try to get all variables in the same shot, either.

 

[Soocom1]

I shot multiples, that was the best of the bunch.
W/O the filter the blow out was pritty harsh.
But the intent was not to display, it was to test the camera's abilities and the lens itself.

Plus given that I intend to use the lens in other situations including some portraits, the need for a polarizer was pressing.

overall, the image itself was simply a test to see if I would get the effects I wanted.

IMO it did.

Who knew a simple still life would get so much negative criticism? Composition aside, it seems to me that if you want to test your gear, have some extremes and some very close colors/values.

IOW:

very light and very dark

saturated and not saturated

primary colors and very pale shades

You needn't try to get all variables in the same shot, either.

Past experience have told me to run the gambit of tone and subtle color.

but cest la vie.

 

[Derrel]

As I recall the Canon 1DS was from 2002 and the 5D was a much newer camera, with a lot better sensor.

Back in the summer of 2006 or 2007 I was shooting both the Canon 5D and the Nikon D2x. For a short period of time I was shooting both cameras and was blind testing several different raw converter software applications. At the end of each day I would send the raw files to various converters and would then do a slideshow so that I could compare side-by-side the same images as they were batch converted by the various software applications.

Most of the time adobe camera raw (ACR)did a pretty good job about converting, but it times Silky Pix or MacBibble,or Canon DPP, or Nikon Capture 4.1 would create an extraordinarily beautiful JPEG file.

There was rhyme or reason that I could ever ascertain. Just an occasional extraordinarily good conversion, made automatically.