I'm not sure what you worked on except maybe the tiger lilies. I can't
tell a difference since I hadn't paid much attention to them in the
first cut. My favorite was #2 and the one I thought could be most
improved with shallower DOF.
Chuck Norcutt
Joel Wilcox wrote:
> That's maybe looking for a level of refinement an app can't provide.
> The photos were made rather hurriedly in order to have something to
> work with in Filterstorm. At the focal length, the DZ 14-45 might
> have been wide open, but they are slow lenses, so wide open is not
> very open. I usually use the 45-150 wide open to get more isolation
> for background.
>
> If you care to look again I played with using the brushes feature to
> blur the background of the last image to create fake bokeh.
>
> The backlit touchscreen seems to make most photos look OK, but it
> doesn't provide as much information as one might think about when the
> image is just right. Some of my "improvements" made the images worse
> once I was able to view them on adequate equipment. Thanks for
> looking.
>
> Joel W.
>
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Chuck Norcutt
> <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I like several of those photos except for too much DOF. But it's a
>> double-edged sword.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> Joel Wilcox wrote:
>>> You're such a heckler, Chuck. ;^P
>>>
>>> Here's a few jpgs "processed" through Filterstorm.
>>>
>>> http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/7734758/1/iPad01?h=194c27
>>>
>>> They were shot with E-410 as RAW +jpg. I selected HQ jpg size. Next
>>> time I'll try RAW + SQ jpgs. There is no way to adjust file size in
>>> Filterstorm! or I have not found it. I guess it wasn't exactly
>>> designed to process images for direct upload to the web. This is
>>> probably a feature that is coming in future updates.
>>>
>>> I have received an email from the developer about sFTP support. He
>>> says it's coming down the road.
>>>
>>> I discovered that once I had created folders in Dropbox via my PC, I
>>> could fetch my saved photos using a function within Dropbox using the
>>> iPad. I'm still looking for a way entirely within the iPad world to
>>> create new folders in a couple apps. So far it's all workarounds.
>>>
>>> As for the quality of the photos: I was actually pretty happy with
>>> the way they looked coming out of the camera, but I goofed around with
>>> curves, saturation, sharpening, vignetting, etc. Converted a couple to
>>> BW using the channel mixer function. The saved images looked a bit
>>> richer on the iPad, but once I had viewed them on my PC via the web
>>> gallery they looked too dark and over-saturated. I redid the images
>>> to what you see at the link above. The web version doesn't quite
>>> match what I see when I bring the image into Photoshop. I suspect a
>>> colorspace mismatch of some kind. I used AdobeRGB in the camera.
>>> I'll have to send a note to the developer to find out how Filterstorm
>>> is handling colorspaces.
>>>
>>> Joel W.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Chuck Norcutt
>>> <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> I think I'll wait for the Linux competitors
>>>> <http://blogs.computerworld.com/15871/the_ipads_linux_competition>
>>>>
>>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Joel Wilcox wrote:
>>>>> Found an interesting app that just came out for iPad called
>>>>> Filterstorm. With the camera connector (newly arrived) you can
>>>>> upload photos directly from the camera and perform some rather
>>>>> sophisticated edits. Has a good curves tool and uses brushes for a
>>>>> kind of poor man's layers. I like it if I could just figure how I
>>>>> would use it. Google it and watch the demonstration video if
>>>>> interested. Clever stuff.
>>>>>
>>>>> No raw conversion, yet. Also getting the image out of the device is
>>>>> tricky. You can email the image out or use simple FTP, but not sFTP.
>>>>> I thought I might use this app in this scenario: shoot raw +jpg,
>>>>> upload the jpgs via the camera connector, tweak them in Filterstorm,
>>>>> move them to Jalbum, Dropbox, or a web server via FTP to share images
>>>>> in the course of a photo adventure. I am not currently able to do
>>>>> this without a PC somewhere in the path...........
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